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Gender: Male
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18 26 y separately published work icon English Passengers Matthew Kneale , ( trans. Pier Francesco Paolini with title Il passeggero inglese ) Milan : Bompiani , 2002 Z375635 2000 single work novel historical fiction It is 1857, and Reverend Geoffrey Wilson has departed England to prove the literal truth of the bible. The expedition heads towards Tasmania, where he is convinced he will find the real Garden of Eden. But the other passengers have their own agendas. As the English passengers near Peevay's land, their bizarre notions become painfully at odds with reality. (Source: Trove)
6 24 y separately published work icon A River Town Thomas Keneally , ( trans. Pier Francesco Paolini with title La citta in riva al fiume ) Milan : Frassinelli , 1997 Z245611 1995 single work novel historical fiction

'By the best-selling author of Schindler's List, the moving story of a man who moves his family from the harsh poverty of British-controlled Ireland at the end of the last century, hoping to find new freedom in Australia. Instead, he discovers a different but equally stifling social order -- and a moral challenge that will force him to transcend the barriers of race and class.'

Source: ABE Books https://bit.ly/3DfbYxt
9 94 y separately published work icon The Tax Inspector Peter Carey , ( trans. Pier Francesco Paolini with title L' ispettrice delle tasse ) Milan : Longanesi , 1993 Z195169 1991 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Counter From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire--and himself into an angel--the Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. But when a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey's hands, masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror. (Source: Library of Congress Catalogue)
7 73 y separately published work icon The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard , ( trans. Pier Francesco Paolini with title Il pasaggio di Venere ) Milan : Sperling & Kupfer , 1981 Z391036 1980 single work novel (taught in 6 units)
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