Published: October 07, 2018
The Australian author’s third novel is a meditation on national shame, set in Sydney during the Vietnam war
It’s 1965. The Sydney Opera House – still a shell – has become a national scapegoat, slandered in the media and grumbled about in pubs. Its extravagant design and escalating cost has made it emblematic of the divide between the haves and have-nots, and tipped it into the centre of a battle between Labor and the Liberals. The ongoing tenure of Danish architect Jørn Utzon pokes Australia’s xenophobia in the funny bone. Newspaper cartoonists have a field day.
The glittering sails loom large over Kristina Olsson’s hotly anticipated third novel, Shell.
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