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By Peter Carey

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The Booker Prize-winning novelnow a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.

This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continenta haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdomscould a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. ...

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Awards Fiction Literature Movie & TV Tie-Ins Fiction Subjects Peoples & Cultures - Fiction World Fiction Books at the Movies Phases of Life - Fiction Love & Relationships - Fiction Literary Fiction Historical Fiction Occupations - Fiction Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction Australians & New Zealanders - Fiction Games & Hobbies - Fiction Australian & New Zealand Fiction General Fiction - Books at the Movies 20s & 30s - Fiction Romantic Love - Fiction 19th Century Historical Fiction - General & Miscellaneous Clergy & Religious - Fiction Sea - Fiction Australians - Fiction Gambling - Fiction Australian Fiction Best of the Booker Shortlist (40th Anniversary of the Booker Award)1988 Booker Prize Winner Miles Franklin Award Winners->1981-1990 1988 Booker Prize Shortlist Fiction Awards British Literary Awards Booker Prize Booker Celebratory Awards Booker Prize - All Winners Miles Franklin Award Miles Franklin Award - All Winners Booker Prize - Previous Shortlisted Books

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