num_pages: 169
description: Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her handwriting with a map of the country they live in with the syllables of their name? What about then a fictional character in a book about a country one has never and will never visit?Inland is a compact storyor group of stories each nested within anothernonetheless opening onto a seemingly endless fractal geography where the interior of Australia the Midwestern prairie and the Hungarian Alfld merge imitate and enfold one another in the mind of a man sitting alone in a room full of books. Perhaps the greatest novel by Gerald Murnane Australias reply to Proust and Calvino and a Nobel favorite for several years running Inland shows that one can as easily be an exile in ones own interior as out in the wide world and as easily feel the loss of people one has only imagined as those who have shared our lives in the flesh.
language: None
title: Inland
publisher: William Heinemann Australia