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Belomor / Nicolas Rothwell.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781922079749 (pbk.) :
ISBN	192207974X (pbk.) :
Personal Name	Rothwell, Nicolas
Title	Belomor / Nicolas Rothwell.
Publication Details	Melbourne : Text Pub. Co., 2013.
Physical Description	246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary Note	A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet, where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. A man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space, and looks into the murk and sediment of herself. Four chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds. In this entrancing new book from one of our most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in remote Australia, snake hunters, opal miners and desert magic healers. Belomor is a meditation on time, and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it.
Subject - Topical Term	Artists -- Fiction
	Australian fiction
	"The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2013)