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Scary monsters / Michelle de Kretser.

Scary monsters / Michelle de Kretser.
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Record Number 21509
ISBN 9781761065101 (paperback)
Location F DEK
Author De Kretser, Michelle, (author).
Title Scary monsters / Michelle de Kretser.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
©2021.
Collation 153, 152 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
General Note Bound tête-bêche.
Summary Note "Lili's family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she's teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbour. All the while, Lili is striving to be A Bold, Intelligent Woman like Simone de Beauvoir. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation and embraces 'Australian values'. He's also preoccupied by his ambitious wife, his wayward children and his strong-minded elderly mother. Islam has been banned in the country, the air is smoky from a Permanent Fire Zone, and one pandemic has already run its course. Three scary monsters - racism, misogyny and ageism - roam through this mesmerising novel. Its reversible format enacts the disorientation that migrants experience when changing countries changes the story of their lives." - Book jacket.
Awards Note Miles Franklin Award, Shortlist 2022.
Subject Bookclub collection
Neighbors -- Fiction
Teachers -- France -- Fiction
Immigrants - Australia - Fiction
Families -- Australia -- Fiction
Immigrants -- France -- Fiction
Government employees -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
Women teachers -- France -- History -- Fiction
Novel -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
Ageism
Asians
Australians
Immigrants
Misogyny
Racism
Misogyny -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Australians -- France -- Fiction
Asians -- Australia -- Fiction
Racism -- Fiction
Ageism -- Fiction
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