Title: The ancestor game
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.
Subjects: British, Chinese, Fiction, Genealogy, Identity (Psychology), Immigrants, Chinese fiction, Australia, fiction, Fiction, sagas
Places: Australia, Melbourne (Vic.)