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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Custodians
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

In Australia, eight children who met during an eclipse of the sun, are reunited as adults in an eclipse of the moon. The individual stories of these eight reflect the evolution of Australian thought over the last half century on such topics as sexual freedom and the Yellow Peril.

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Notes

  • Epigraph: Many countries, many stories, many lies (Aboriginal cameleerTom Ljonga in conversation with anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow, 1932.
  • Dedication: for Rosemary Creswell

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Picador ,       1997 .
      Extent: 495p.
      Reprinted: 1998 with ISBN 0330360442
      ISBN: 0330352717
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       St. Martin's Press ,       1998 .
      Extent: 495p.
      Edition info: 1st U.S. ed.
      Note/s:
      • A Wyatt book
      ISBN: 031218073X
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 504p.
      ISBN: 9781743312803, 1743312806
Alternative title: 守望者
Transliterated title: Shou wang zhe
Language: Chinese
    • Chongqing,
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      China,
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      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,      :       Chongqing chu ban she ,       2000 .
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      Extent: 572p.
      Edition info: Di 1 ban
      Note/s:
      • Aodaliya wen xue zuo pin xuan
      ISBN: 7536650329, 9787536650329
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  • Also sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Who are the Custodians? 沈嘉蔚 , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 154-161)
Ambivalent Oppositionality : David Malouf's Fly Away Peter - A European View Marc Delrez , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Missions of Interdependence : A Literary Directory 2002; (p. 275-284)
The Cosmopolitan Pastoral : The Paddock, the Novel, and the Nation Robert Beardwood , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century 2001; (p. [10]-20)

Using Murray Bail's Eucalyptus and Nicholas Jose's The Custodians Robert Beardwood shows how Australian writing reflects concerns of claims to place and tensions between longing and belonging, Australian place and Australian identity at the end of the 20th century.
'Taming Distance' : Cross-Cultural Connections in the Work of Nicholas Jose Marc Delrez , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 36 no. 1 2001; (p. 45-57) The articles discusses the treatment and presentation of China in Jose's novels, on the background of the tradition of imaginative engagement with Asia by other Australian authors. It argues that although Jose subscribes at times both to the myth of Asia's mystery and to cliches of oriental mysticism, his work differs from previous generations of Australian novelists in that the author looks to the possibility of "Sino-Australian symbiosis" as part of a desirable, if utopian, aim. Thus his work testifies to a shift in emphasis in respect of cross-cultural pursuits and the post-colonial stance, possibly subverting the notion of a unitary national identity.
La Trobe University Essay : Vanishing Points : An Essay on the Work of Nicholas Jose Evelyn Juers , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (2000-2001) no. 227 2000; (p. 41-46)
The Stripes on the Child Gerard Windsor , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , November vol. 2 no. 10 1997; (p. 20-21)
— Review of A Race across Burning Soil Clare Mendes , 1997 single work novel ; Lovesong Elizabeth Jolley , 1997 single work novel ; The Custodians Nicholas Jose , 1997 single work novel
Custodian of the Past Christopher Bantick , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 July 1997; (p. C11)
— Review of The Custodians Nicholas Jose , 1997 single work novel
Eight Go Adventuring in Adelaide Morag Fraser , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 July 1997; (p. 9s)
— Review of The Custodians Nicholas Jose , 1997 single work novel
Out of the Shadow of White A. P. Riemer , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 192 1997; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Custodians Nicholas Jose , 1997 single work novel
Custodians of National Conscience Come with the Territory Janet Chimonyo , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 27 July 1997; (p. 8)
— Review of The Custodians Nicholas Jose , 1997 single work novel
The Cosmopolitan Pastoral : The Paddock, the Novel, and the Nation Robert Beardwood , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century 2001; (p. [10]-20)

Using Murray Bail's Eucalyptus and Nicholas Jose's The Custodians Robert Beardwood shows how Australian writing reflects concerns of claims to place and tensions between longing and belonging, Australian place and Australian identity at the end of the 20th century.
Who are the Custodians? 沈嘉蔚 , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 154-161)
Well Connected and Dissected Patricia Rolfe , 1997 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 July vol. 116 no. 6082 1997; (p. 74)
Subject Matters Jason Steger , 1997 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 October 1997; (p. 8)
Landscape of Memory Nikki Barrowclough , 1997 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 12 July 1997; (p. 24-28)
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Awards

1998 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize — South-East Asia and South Pacific Region
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Last amended 25 Jul 2018 14:32:07
Subjects:
  • Country towns,
  • c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Hong Kong,
    c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • Adelaide, South Australia,
  • Queensland,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • North East South Australia, Far North South Australia, South Australia,
  • Bush,
  • Urban,
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
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