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Le Prix Indications Passa Porta Prize for foreign literature is awarded during Belgium's leading literature festival. The prize jury is made up of 15 young academics.
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Disquiet
Camberwell
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Penguin
,
2008
Z1457081
2008
single work
novella
(taught in 3 units)
An elegant young woman stands with her two children at the gate of an austere chateau, locked out. The three have come from Australia, escaping violence, and their arrival is unexpected. The two children have never been here before. The woman, Olivia, has come home. But home is not what it was. Even when Olivia gains entry, what she finds is not what she left. While the children are entranced by the house, the formal gardens and the inviting lake, Olivia learns that members of her estranged family have experienced tragedies they cannot openly discuss - just as she has, herself - leading them to behave in ways that destabilise a world of exquisite artifice and control. - from dust jacket flap
