Anam: Shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin and PM's Literary Awards by André Dao
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Description 'Transcendent.'THE AGE'Anam is a beautiful book. I loved its hypnotic rhythms, its restlessness, the way memories, dreams and ideas, like waves, kept riding in over the top of one another, undoing and complicating everything. It is the work of a soulful and scrupulous mind.'MILES ALLINSON'Lovingly domestic in parts, boldly theoretical in others, for a country full of migrants, living amid unresolved questions of place and belonging, Anam is a profoundly relevant novel.'Judges, PM's Literary Awards'A good book lingers and, for me, affirms any curious return to its pages. Anam, the story of a grandson's desire to make sense of his family's past and his grandfather's long imprisonment, is just this. The prose is meditative, recursive and serpentine. It is a work that wrestles with its own form and, like the best literature, escapes easy definition.'JESSICA AU'Andre Dao effortlessly discards the established form of the novel in Anam and goes convincingly and mesmerisingly his own way with a level of brilliance that entranced me. The result is the most richly poetic and intelligent novel I've read in many years. Dao's search for his own inner truth is beautiful and profound.'ALEX MILLER' I loved Andre Dao's brilliantly restless Anam.'MILES ALLINSON'I was stunned by the power and beauty of Anam.'NAM LEAnam blends fiction and essay, theory and everyday life to imagine that which has been repressed, left out, and forgotten. The grandson mines his family and personal stories to turn over ideas that resonate with all of us around place and home, legacy and expectation, ambition and sacrifice. As he sifts through letters, photographs, government documents and memories, he has his own family to think about- a partner and an infant daughter. Is there a way to remember the past that creates a future for them? Or does coming home always involve a certain amount of forgetting?
Author Biography
Andre Dao is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and artist. His debut novel, Anam, won the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, The Monthly, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Saturday Paper, New Philosopher, Arena Magazine, Asia Literary Review and elsewhere.His residencies and fellowships include an AsiaLink Arts Residency in Hanoi, an Emerging Writers Festival-Ubud Writers Festival Island to Island residency across Indonesia, and a Wheeler Centre Hotdesk Fellowship. In 2015 he was selected as one of Melbourne Writers Festival's 30 Best Writers under 30.He is the co-founder of Behind the Wire, the award-winning oral history project documenting the stories of the adults and children who have been detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. His work for Behind the Wire includes a Quill award winning article for The Saturday Paper and the Walkley Award-winning podcast, The Messenger. He co-edited Behind the Wire's collection of literary oral histories They Cannot Take the Sky.He was previously the editor-in-chief of Right Now, an online human rights magazine. In recognition of that work he was a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2011 Young People's Human Rights Medal. He is also a member of the Manus Recording Project Collective, whose work has been exhibited in the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and the City Gallery, Wellington.
Details ISBN 1761046942 ISBN-13 9781761046940 Title Anam: Shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin and PM's Literary Awards Author André Dao Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 352 Publisher Penguin Random House Australia GE_Item_ID:142037236; About Us
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