Cairo
By: Chris Womersley
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781848663916
Description: Who wants to be the same as everyone else? You don't want to be ordinary, do you? At 18, Tom escapes ordinariness in small town Australia for Melbourne and a flat in a strange block named Cairo. There he meets the magnetic Max Cheever, and is drawn into his circle of bohemian artists and dreamers. Liberating him from the bourgeois aspirations of university, they fill his world with affection, passion, opinion and a feeling of belonging he never had before. But all is not as idyllic as it seems. Max is prepared to break all the rules to live freely, and soon Tom is ensnared in his plot to steal a million dollar Picasso masterpiece. Among undependable forgers and violent art dealers, Tom trusts only in Max - even as he falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful wife. For in all the lessons he learns this summer, the greatest one will be to identify what is real - from what is fake.
Notes: Originally published in Australia in 2013.