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'David's grandfather, Jimmy, a Jewish war veteran and survivor of the Thai-Burma railway, is seventy. Haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, the only person he can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world. Sometimes it breaks your heart to be understood.
'Spirit House is a story of Changi and the Thai-Burma railway, of old men living with the horrors of their past, and about making sense of the daunting business of growing up.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication:
To Jimmy and Freda Benjamin
ava ashalom
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Words of Great Worth
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 30-31) This column comprises the judges' comments on the shortlisted works for the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award. (The list includes three titles, outside the scope of AustLit, by James Boyce, Paul Ham and Jane Gleeson-White.) -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 4 no. 2 2012;
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel -
Miles Franklin Longlist Has Room for Both Genders
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 March 2012; (p. 5) -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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Off the Shelf : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 29 October 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel
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Fighting the Shame of Surrender
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10 - 11 September 2011; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel -
Ghosts of the Fallen
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 September 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel -
Ghosts of War Bring Past to Life
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 September 2011; (p. 34-35)
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 91 no. 2 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel -
Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 - 16 October 2011; (p. 22)
— Review of Spirit House 2011 single work novel -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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Miles Franklin Longlist Has Room for Both Genders
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 March 2012; (p. 5) -
Words of Great Worth
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 30-31) This column comprises the judges' comments on the shortlisted works for the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award. (The list includes three titles, outside the scope of AustLit, by James Boyce, Paul Ham and Jane Gleeson-White.)
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
- 2012 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Burma-Thailand Railway,
cBurma,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- 1940s
- Bondi, Bondi area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 2000-2099
- 1990-2000