The Broken Shore
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 359 pages ; 24 cm
Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is--one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. The Broken Shore, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he's posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community--everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong. Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing as well as Australia's major prize for crime fiction, the Ned Kelly Award,The Broken Shoreis a transfixing and moving novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten.
Subjects:
Murder -- Australia -- Fiction.
Race discrimination -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
Murder -- Australia -- Fiction.
Race discrimination -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374116934 ( hardcover : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
M Temple | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Mystery | In |
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"Originally published in 2005 by the Text Publishing Company, Australia"--Title page verso.