The Tyrant's Novel

The Tyrant's Novel
First edition
AuthorTom Keneally
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDoubleday, Australia
Publication date
2003
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages292
Awards2003 Colin Roderick Award winner
ISBN1864710713
Preceded byAn Angel in Australia 
Followed byThe Widow and Her Hero 

The Tyrant's Novel is a 2003 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally.[1]

Plot summary

An unnamed country's tyrannical ruler, Great Uncle, commands author Alan Sheriff to ghost-write a novel that will have the literary circles of the western world talking about him. The novel is told from the point-of-view of Sheriff after he has arrived in Australia as a refugee and been incarcerated in a detention centre.

Notes

  • Dedication: To my brother, John Patrick, the good practitioner, with fraternal love

Reviews

Alfred Hicking in The Guardian was cautious about confirming the book as one of Keneally's best: " Keneally's novels are often prodigiously long and overstuffed with a multitude of literary devices - the bulging tome of 2002's Bettany's Book suggested there were at least two better-proportioned novels fighting to get out. By Keneally's standards, The Tyrant's Novel is a mere slip of a thing. Whether it will turn out to be the other book on his epitaph, we will have to wait and see."[2]

But Amanda Urban in Publishers' Weekly was a little more confident in her judgment. "In his hands, the cliché of the suffering artiste struggling to avoid selling out takes on real depth and pathos. This is an exquisitely wrought study of moral corruption in a convincing—and frighteningly modern—political dystopia."[3]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ "The Tyrant's Novel by Tom Keneally". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  2. ^ The Guardian, "Also known as Saddam" by Alfred Hickling, 31 January 2004
  3. ^ Publishers' Weekly, "The Tyrant's Novel, Thomas Keneally, author" by Amanda Urban
  4. ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2024.

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