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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Unearthed
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'When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from the author of Fortune.

'There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men and lift their heads, listen, then bound away: the scrub, the bushes shake and wave, signalling their invisible trajectories.

'After decades-old human bones are discovered in the Tasmanian wilderness, Antonia Kovács returns home with questions for her father, a retired police inspector in Queenstown.

'Meanwhile, Tom Pilar receives news of an inheritance, from a man he barely remembers, one of his father's friends from the early days, newly arrived in the island and looking for work.

'Set amidst the harsh terrain of the timber and ore industries of the west coast, The Unearthed is a haunting novel about the past and its quiet but tenacious grip on the present. It reveals the tragic connections between the disparate lives of post-war migrants and local workers, and the fallibility of memory, the illusion of truths and the repercussions on real lives.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2023 .
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      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 1 August 2023

      ISBN: 9781761067440

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.

Works about this Work

Revisiting a Memory’s Powerful Mark Charles Wooley , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 August 2023; (p. 16)

— Review of The Unearthed Lenny Bartulin , 2023 single work novel
Revisiting a Memory’s Powerful Mark Charles Wooley , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 August 2023; (p. 16)

— Review of The Unearthed Lenny Bartulin , 2023 single work novel

Awards

2024 shortlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize Adult
2024 shortlisted The Danger Prize Fiction
Last amended 10 Aug 2023 09:40:35
Settings:
  • Tasmania,
  • Queenstown, Western Tasmania (including the West Coast), Tasmania,
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