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Scary Monsters
Scary Monsters
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957)
English editions
Written in EnglishScary Monsters
Allen & Unwin · United Kingdom · 5 January 2023 · Paperback
Scary Monsters
Allen & Unwin · Australia · 19 October 2021 · Paperback · 320 pages
Scary Monsters
Allen & Unwin · United Kingdom · 6 January 2022 · Hardcover
Scary Monsters
Catapult · United States · April 2022 · Paperback · 288 pages
Scary Monsters
Allen & Unwin · Australia · 28 November 2023 · Paperback · 320 pages
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Printed back to back, the two halves of this book can be read in either order. In one, Lili, whose family left Asia for Australia during her teens, is twenty-two and spending the early 1980s as an English teacher in Montpellier before going on to Oxford. She makes friends, sees how North African migrants are treated, feels uneasy about her downstairs neighbour and longs to live as boldly as Simone de Beauvoir. In the other, Lyle, another Asian migrant, has a security job with a shadowy government department in a near-future Australia where Islam is forbidden and smoke drifts constantly from fires that never go out. Terrified of deportation, he clings to 'Australian values' while fretting over his wife, his children and his elderly mother.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 320 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, Australia, 1980s and the near future
- First published
- 2021
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
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9781761065101 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)
9781838953959 (Allen & Unwin, United Kingdom)
9781646221097 (Catapult, United States)
9781838953973 (Allen & Unwin, United Kingdom)
9781761471209 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)
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