Steve Toltz je austrálsky prozaik, ktorého diela sú známe svojou hlbokou filozofickou introspekciou a originálnym humorom. Vytvára komplexné postavy, ktoré sa potýkajú s existenciálnymi otázkami a neobvyklými životnými okolnosťami. Jeho štýl sa vyznačuje neočakávanými dejovými zvratmi a provokatívnym zamyslením nad podstatou ľudskej existencie. Čitatelia sa môžu tešiť na literárne zážitky plné irónie, múdrosti a pozoruhodnej predstavivosti.
Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Guardian First Book Award 2008 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009.
Intensely moving, darkly funny and hugely entertaining, Quicksand focuses on the multifaceted dynamics between the protagonists Aldo and Liam: lifelong friends, criminal and police officer, muse and writer. As well as being a compulsively funny work, Quicksand also offers its reader a profound exploration of fate, suffering and resilience; a gruelling yet illuminating depiction of physical disability; and a subversive portrait of twenty-first-century society in all its hypocrisy and absurdity.
Angus Mooney is not happy - he's been murdered, cut off in the prime of his life. He feels humiliated - he's never even believed in an afterlife. (How wrong he'd been). He's confused - death has provided more questions than answers. And he desperately misses his audacious and fiery wife, Gracie, who's expecting their first child. The only upside is that Angus has found a way to see what his murderer is up to, and how Gracie is faring. The downside: Gracie and his murderer are getting uncomfortably close, and a worldwide pandemic means the afterlife is about to get very crowded.
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