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Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, Australia.
Wright's storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics.
The novel teems with extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Stan Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist and prodigal son Will Phantom, and above all, the queen of the rubbish-dump Angel Day and her sea-faring husband Normal Phantom, the fish-embalming king of time - figures that stride like giants across this storm-swept world.
Winner of the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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