- Published: 1 May 2012
- ISBN: 9781742756387
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
The Mountain
- Published: 1 May 2012
- ISBN: 9781742756387
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
The Mountain is an epic novel, sweeping in its reach and sumptuous in its realisation. It can only enhance Modjeska's already formidable reputation.
Diane Stubbings, Canberra Times
The Mountain is at once a luminous work of fiction and an anatomy of ideas of light and enlightenment. In the entwinement of large and smaller histories Modjeska brings her honed talents to the creation of a multifarious, extraordinary and dazzling novel that feels nothing like a debut.
Felicity Plunkett, Weekend Australian
A rewarding historical and human drama.
Adelaide Advertiser
The Mountain...is beautiful. It's complicated and multilayered, with people and meaning...its sense of place is extraordinary.
Herald Sun
The Mountain is a richly textured, satisfying complex effort of storytelling.
Peter Pierce, The Saturday Age, Melbourne
...The Mountain is a rich and rewarding story from an outstanding writer. Intelligently written with some exquisite description of the scenery and profound insight into relationships...
Surf Coast Times
...This is the best kind of novel, one that entertains, educates and leaves the reader in no doubt about the skill of its author.
Michael Jacobson, Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin
Firsthand experience is woven with imagination, respectful observation, fraught history, contemporary politics, art and theory. The result is an important and compelling tale, gently bringing PNG into sharper focus.
Emma Ashmore, Northern Rivers Echo
ALS Gold Medal Award
Longlisted • 2012 • ALS Gold Medal Award