The Lost Dog

Synopsis

Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th-century India, here is a haunting, layered work that vividly contrasts new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wider untamed continent beyond. The Lost Dog is a gripping contemporary novel, part mystery and part love-story.

Author Biography

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia with her family in 1972. She has taught English at the University of Melbourne, as well as working as an editor and book reviewer. Her novels, The Rose Grower (1999) and The Hamilton Case (2003), have been published across the world and translated into several languages. The Hamilton Case was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for South-East Asia and the Pacific, the Encore Award and the Tasmania Pacific Prize for Australian and New Zealand fiction. She lives in Melbourne.