Questions of travel
Subtitle: a novel
By: Michelle de Kretser
Edition: 1st US ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780316219228
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Fiction; International travel; Sri Lankans
Description: "Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendes is on the other side of the world--his humble father dead, his mother struggling, determined to succeed in computer science. Their stories alternate throughout-- culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, returning to Sydney to work for a travel guide. There she meets Ravi, a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living" -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, 2012.