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'Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land.
'Abandoning their broken-down car on the way to the prison's visiting hour, Amanda and Rattuwat venture into the trackless scrub of Australia's outer suburbs. As the day heats up, the sense of menace intensifies and each of them enters the no-man's-land between safety and peril. With the right kind of mindfulness, William Blake tells us, one can behold infinity in a grain of sand.
'In the grainy bush tracks of the outer eastern suburbs of Perth, the whole canvas of contemporary Australian life - the ethnic diversity, its violence, its growing divisions of class and economic status, its convoluted history of linkage with South East Asia - is made vivid and visible in this remarkable novella.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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The Year’s Work in Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 124-143)
— Review of Elephants in the Bush and Other Yamatji Yarns 2013 single work prose life story ; An Elegant Young Man 2013 selected work short story ; The Incredible Here and Now 2013 single work novel ; Elemental 2013 single work novel ; Now Showing 2013 selected work short story ; The Heaven I Swallowed 2013 single work novel ; Stella's Sea 2013 single work novel ; The Young Desire It : A Novel 1937 single work novel ; Inland 1988 single work novel ; White Light 2013 selected work short story ; Knitting and Other Stories : Margaret River Short Story Competition 2013 2013 selected work short story ; The Best Australian Stories 2013 2013 selected work short story ; The Rosie Project 2013 single work novel ; Lives of the Dead 2013 selected work short story ; The Double (And Other Stories) 2013 selected work short story ; Harmless 2013 single work novel ; Letters to the End of Love 2013 single work novel ; Eyrie 2013 single work novel ; The Swan Book 2013 single work novel -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 April 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel ; Into My Arms 2013 single work novel -
Bonfire
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel -
Wanderers in the Wilderness Hint at Rare Chance of Rebirth
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 April 2013; (p. 30-31) The Age , 27 April 2013; (p. 30) The Canberra Times , 25 April 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel -
Accidental Family at Heart of a Darker, More Complex Australia
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 April 2013; (p. 23)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel
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Accidental Family at Heart of a Darker, More Complex Australia
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 April 2013; (p. 23)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel -
Wanderers in the Wilderness Hint at Rare Chance of Rebirth
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 April 2013; (p. 30-31) The Age , 27 April 2013; (p. 30) The Canberra Times , 25 April 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel -
Bonfire
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 April 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel ; Into My Arms 2013 single work novel -
'Not Quite Broken'
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , April 2013;
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel
- Perth, Western Australia,