The ancestor game
By: Alex Miller
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: St. Leonards, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781865083155; 9781741142266
Subjects: Chinese fiction; British; Fiction; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants; Genealogy
Description: Piecing together the puzzle of exiled artist, Lang Tzu, last of a wealthy Chinese lineage, writer Steven Muir finds himself caught in a strange and haunted landscape. Both know the solitude of the only child and the poignancy of the relationship with parents, but beneath is a twisted past. Winner of Miles Franklin Award 1993.