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'A love story of sorts, Tuvalu tells the story of Noah Tuttle, who is glumly and aimlessly living a half kind of life in a cheap rundown hostel in the seamier margins of Tokyo, a place overrun with feral cats and cockroaches. He teaches mediocre English to disinterested students, sleeps with his girlfriend, Tilly, when she's around, drinks beer when he can afford it, and generally avoids other people and their expectations. Nothing much happens to him - until, that is, he meets the wealthy, captivating and completely self-absorbed Mami Kaketa, a supremely selfish creature who leaves people like so much litter in her wake, so brazen and capricious she should come with a health warning.
'A blackly funny, inconclusive and strangely beguiling story of ennui, escape, exile and dreams.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For my parents, brother and sister, who always believed. For Toshiko, who made it possible.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Great Expectations
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 42 no. 3 2010; (p. 6-9) -
Representations of the Japanese in Contemporary Australian Literature and Film
2008
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criticism
— Appears in: New Voices , vol. 2 no. 2008; 'The objective of this article is to investigate general contemporary Australian perceptions of the Japanese. I will do this by exploring how Australian contemporary literature (2006-2007) and Australian contemporary film (1997-2007) depicts Japanese characters. By analysing the representation of the Japanese characters in these areas I will attempt to gather a broad understanding of how Australians represent, perceive and identify the Japanese today.' -- Author's abstract -
Fable Pips a Favourite in Literary Race
2007
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 2007; (p. 13) Susan Wyndham reports on the winners of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region. New Zealand's Lloyd Jones won the Best Book prize for Pip and Australia's Andrew O'Connor won the Best First Book prize for Tuvalu. -
Apathy Conveyed Too Well
2006
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 - 10 September 2006; (p. 23)
— Review of Tuvalu 2006 single work novel -
Gaining in Translation
2006
single work
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— Appears in: The Age , 23 September 2006; (p. 26)
— Review of Tuvalu 2006 single work novel
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Untitled
2006
single work
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 86 no. 1 2006; (p. 49)
— Review of Tuvalu 2006 single work novel -
A Place in the Imagination
2006
single work
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 July 2006; (p. 8)
— Review of Tuvalu 2006 single work novel -
Anti-Hero Worship
2006
single work
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 August vol. 124 no. 6532 2006; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Diamond Dove 2006 single work novel ; Wild Amazement 2006 selected work short story autobiography ; Tuvalu 2006 single work novel -
All-Absorbing Look at Search for an Elusive Dream
2006
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 August 2006; (p. 13)
— Review of Tuvalu 2006 single work novel -
The Island in the Mind
2006
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 August 2006; (p. 37)
— Review of Tuvalu 2006 single work novel -
Writer Learns from Japan
2005
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 September 2005; (p. 19) -
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer Pays Off
2005
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 September 2005; (p. 5) -
Islands of Dreams
2006
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 2 September 2006; (p. 10) -
Fable Pips a Favourite in Literary Race
2007
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 March 2007; (p. 13) Susan Wyndham reports on the winners of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region. New Zealand's Lloyd Jones won the Best Book prize for Pip and Australia's Andrew O'Connor won the Best First Book prize for Tuvalu. -
Representations of the Japanese in Contemporary Australian Literature and Film
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Voices , vol. 2 no. 2008; 'The objective of this article is to investigate general contemporary Australian perceptions of the Japanese. I will do this by exploring how Australian contemporary literature (2006-2007) and Australian contemporary film (1997-2007) depicts Japanese characters. By analysing the representation of the Japanese characters in these areas I will attempt to gather a broad understanding of how Australians represent, perceive and identify the Japanese today.' -- Author's abstract
Awards
- 2008 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2007 winner Commonwealth Writers Prize — Best First Book
- 2007 winner South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
- 2005 winner The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript)
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