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      The Garden of Sorrows

      by John Hughes
      Published
      Oct 2013
      Main Genre
      Fantasy Fantasy
      Pages
      142
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      In this book, fourteen mesmerizing fables - and the etchings they inspired - draw us back to our origins in a garden of sorrow and exile, death and renewal, beauty and melancholy. John Hughes re-imagines a series of fables in which Australian animals take on human qualities, as thief and actor, warrior and poet, farmer and merchant. These are reverse fables - in the way that the Antipodes reverse Northern Hemisphere logic - that cast us back to the flux at the beginning of the world: inchoate nature, the world in a state of formation, the garden, and the inferno. Accompanied by artist Marco Luccio's darkly wry etchings, this collaboration between two artists is as unique as the stories it contains.

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Fantasy Literary

      Themes

      Fairy Tales / Folklore

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      First Edition Oct 2013 University of Western Australia Press ISBN13 9781742585147 ISBN10 1742585140
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