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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 The Red Book
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'Françoise, an Australian photographer, travels to Bhopal in India, where 20 years earlier a gas leak killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, and Arkay, a Scottish traveler battling addiction, who has found solace in Buddhism. As a testament to their time together Françoise assembles photographs from their lives into an album, the Red Book. The photographs tell their stories of love, struggle and transformation—pointing to the people they have been and who they will become. The three narrators' beautifully realized voices show how lives entwine and split apart, and the story captures the irresistible lure of India for outsiders, the promise of its spirituality, and its layered history.' (Publication summary)

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Granta ,
      2008 .
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      Extent: 256p.
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      • Publication date 03 March 2008
      ISBN: 9781847080028
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Granta ,
      2009 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 1st 2009
      ISBN: 9781847080639
Alternative title: Le livre rouge
Language: French
    • Paris,
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      France,
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      Editions Metailie ,
      2011 .
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      Extent: 280p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 14 April 2011
      ISBN: 9782864247265

Works about this Work

The Internationalists : Australian Writers and Contemporary Greece Anne Pender , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 19 no. 1 2019;

'The expatriate Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and Americans who lived on the Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s and ’60s were a mix of fiction writers, poets, musicians, painters, journalists and photographers. Politically, many of them would have described themselves as internationalists. George Johnston wrote his novel My Brother Jack (1964) while he and Charmian Clift lived on Hydra, and with it he said he rediscovered Australia.

'The contemporary Australian writers Susan Johnson and Meaghan Delahunt have each been inspired in their own work by the fiction and memoir of Johnston and Clift. Both Johnson and Delahunt have spent long periods of their lives as expatriates themselves, living in the UK and other parts of Europe. In spite of the achievements of Johnson and Delahunt as novelists, their writing has been largely overlooked by critics. This article examines their work in relation to expatriatism, internationalism and the politics of contemporary Europe.

'The article examines Susan Johnson’s reimagining of the lives of George Johnston and Charmian Clift in The Broken Book (2004) in 2019, 50 years after Clift’s death. It also explores Delahunt’s To the Island (2011), which is set on Naxos. The essay articulates the ways in which Johnson and Delahunt have internationalised Australian literature as a direct result of their expatriate experiences.' (Publication abstract)

Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 May 2008; (p. 26)

— Review of The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , 2008 single work novel
The Complete Picture Katharine England , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 May 2008; (p. 10)

— Review of The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , 2008 single work novel ; The White Tiger Aravind Adiga , 2008 single work novel
Snapshot of a Lingering Indian Tragedy Claudia Hyles , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 April 2008; (p. 13)

— Review of The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , 2008 single work novel
Snapshot of a Lingering Indian Tragedy Claudia Hyles , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 April 2008; (p. 13)

— Review of The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , 2008 single work novel
The Complete Picture Katharine England , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 May 2008; (p. 10)

— Review of The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , 2008 single work novel ; The White Tiger Aravind Adiga , 2008 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 May 2008; (p. 26)

— Review of The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , 2008 single work novel
The Internationalists : Australian Writers and Contemporary Greece Anne Pender , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 19 no. 1 2019;

'The expatriate Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and Americans who lived on the Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s and ’60s were a mix of fiction writers, poets, musicians, painters, journalists and photographers. Politically, many of them would have described themselves as internationalists. George Johnston wrote his novel My Brother Jack (1964) while he and Charmian Clift lived on Hydra, and with it he said he rediscovered Australia.

'The contemporary Australian writers Susan Johnson and Meaghan Delahunt have each been inspired in their own work by the fiction and memoir of Johnston and Clift. Both Johnson and Delahunt have spent long periods of their lives as expatriates themselves, living in the UK and other parts of Europe. In spite of the achievements of Johnson and Delahunt as novelists, their writing has been largely overlooked by critics. This article examines their work in relation to expatriatism, internationalism and the politics of contemporary Europe.

'The article examines Susan Johnson’s reimagining of the lives of George Johnston and Charmian Clift in The Broken Book (2004) in 2019, 50 years after Clift’s death. It also explores Delahunt’s To the Island (2011), which is set on Naxos. The essay articulates the ways in which Johnson and Delahunt have internationalised Australian literature as a direct result of their expatriate experiences.' (Publication abstract)

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