num_pages: 432
description: The wildly funny novel-never published before in the United States-that put Murray Bail on the literary map.Thirteen men and women on a package tour travel the world, visiting museums, hotels, and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, except that wherever they go-Africa, England, South America, New York, or Russia-they find nothing is as it seems. Challenged by unexpected propositions, differences, and subtleties of life and history, Murray Bail's tourists are in turn repelled, attracted, altered. As the Nobel laureate Patrick White put it, Homesickness, with its "tourists permanently traipsing through the museums of their own obsessions," is the work of "a visual writer with great understanding of sensual man." It is surely one of the most distinctive, original Australian novels of recent times.
language: English
title: Homesickness
titlecomplete: Homesickness
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 139
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: The Age Book of the Year
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux