Five Bells (novel)
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| Author | Gail Jones |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage, Australia |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 216 |
| ISBN | 9781864710601 |
| Preceded by | Sorry |
| Followed by | A Guide to Berlin |
Five Bells (2011) is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones.[1]
Five Bells concerns four main characters who visit Circular Quay in Sydney on the same day: Ellie, a PhD student; James, a teacher; Catherine, an Irish woman mourning the loss of her brother; and Pei Xing, a Chinese woman.
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- Epigraph: "Memory believes before knowing remembers." - William Faulkner, Light in August
Where have you gone? The tide is over you,
The turn of midnight water's over you,
As Time is over you, and mystery,
And memory, the flood that does not flow.
–Kenneth Slessor, "Five Bells"
- "The first debt of this project is to Kenneth Slessor's elegiac poem, "Five Bells" (1939), which returned to me, like a remembered song, one midnight on a ferry in the centre of Circular Quay". (Author's acknowledgements: p. 217)