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The Ancestor Game (Paperback)
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|Short Description for The Ancestor GamePiecing together the puzzle of exiled artist, Lang Tzu, last of a wealthy Chinese lineage, writer Steven Muir finds himself caught in the strange and haunted landscape. Both know the solitude of the only child and the poignancy of the relationship with parents, but beneath is a twisted past.
Full description- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Published: 01 July 2000
- Format: Paperback 312 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781865083155 ISBN 10: 1865083151
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'A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.' - Michael Ondaatje The Ancestor Game, which Robert Dessaix described as 'one of the most engrossing books I've read in a long time', is an enthralling journey into the ancestral dreams and present dilemmas of a rich cast of characters. Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia. Steven left England for Australia as a young man and his one attempt at returning is unsuccessful. August Spiess, although he speaks frequently of returning to his native Hamburg, fails to make the journey, as does his daughter Gertrude. Lang Tzu's very name defines his fate: 'two characters which in Mandarin signify the son who goes away.' The 'game', however, does have winners. For despite their yearnings for the home of their ancestral dreams, a desire to belong somewhere that is truly their own, none of Miller's characters leaves Australia, and each in their own way comes to see that to be at home in exile may be a defining paradox of the European Australian condition: t
