![]() ![]() ![]() His most recent novel, The Pages, was published in 2008 to great acclaim.'There's a lightness to Bail's writing - a gentle stealth in its revelations - that slowly but surely brings the reader alive.One of Australia's most original and imaginative writers.' Canberra Times'The Voyage is oblique, idiosyncratic and original. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. Now travelling home, on a container ship, with Elisabeth, the real story is about to begin.Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe.How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have tried Berlin.But a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities for Delage - connections, her daughter Elisabeth, and an avant garde composer. The Voyage is a masterly novel by a great writer at the peak of his powers.Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. ![]()
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