Asylum
Subtitle: a story of love, loss and belonging
By: Isobel Blackthorn
Publisher: Odyssey Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Carwoola, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781922200228
Subjects: Australian fiction; Mate selection; Fiction; Roman australien; Choix du conjoint; Romans, nouvelles
Description: Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy that she will meet the father of her children before she's thirty. She's twenty-nine. Set in the excoriating heat of an endless Perth summer, against the backdrop of asylum seekers locked in detention, Asylum is a gripping tale of loss and belonging that is dark, absurd and hilarious by turns.