To Name Those Lost
2014 novel by Australian author Rohan Wilson
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To Name Those Lost is a 2014 novel by the Australian author Rohan Wilson.[1]
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| Author | Rohan Wilson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary novel |
| Publisher | Allen and Unwin |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 297 pp. |
| Awards | 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, winner |
| ISBN | 9781743318324 |
| Preceded by | The Roving Party |
The novel is a sequel to the author's 2011 novel The Roving Party.
It was the winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction.[2]
Synopsis
The novel is set in Tasmania in 1874, forty-five years after the events depicted in The Roving Party. Thomas Toosey is now sixty-years-old and has decided to give up his old life and search for his motherless 12-year-old son in Launceston.
Critical reception
In The Saturday Paper the reviewer JF described the novel as "There is a justice in Wilson's resolution of this dark and vigorous tale; though the ex-convicts don't escape the fatal shore, there is redemption for the next generation. Wilson's superbly taut novel keeps up its pace with spare punctuation and brutal dialogue in a vigorously drawn landscape feverish with the heat of a bushfire summer."[3]
David Whish-Wilson, writing in Australian Book Review noted that "Wilson's characters are not ciphers standing in for [...] broader social forces and themes. All of them are fully humanised, their motives and hopes and frailties convincingly explored," and goes on conclude "There is a purity of vision in To Name Those Lost's consistency of tone and relentless drive to capture the dark poetry of dangerous times."[4]
Publication history
After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Allen and Unwin[1] it was reprinted in the USA in 2017 by Europa Editions.[5]
Awards
- 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, winner[2]
- 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award, shortlisted[6]
- 2015 Voss Literary Prize, shortlisted[7]