AustLit

'Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, Wimmera re-invents the epic. All the classical elements are there but they are now democratic, and ours. The narrator's anonymous informant knows a thing or two. Objective and personal, learned and demotic, local and vast, Wimmera is the history of a region and seedbed of a vision where 'the bunyip indeed lays down with the manticore.' There is nothing like it anywhere.' (Publication summary)