num_pages: 233
description: Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded.Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner; a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation; and a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience.She has made her life's work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.
language: English
title: Elizabeth Costello
titlecomplete: Elizabeth Costello
characters: Elizabeth Costello
genres: Fiction, South Africa, Philosophy, Australia, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 9127
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Queensland Premier's Literary Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Vintage