( Supplied: Pan Macmillan) Among many other things, Aravind Adiga's novel Amnesty is about what it means to be invisible on the streets of an Australian city. CN Amnesty by Aravind Adiga (Picador)Īmnesty is the latest novel from Aravind Adiga, whose debut novel The White Tiger won the 2008 Booker Prize. In Lucky, Pippos has created a literary hero you are unlikely to forget. Told in clear, direct prose, this is a carefully constructed story about migration, family, and violence. Emily is reeling from a recent marriage breakdown, but also from a childhood tragedy that has links to Lucky's own life story. The story is also about Emily, a British journalist who has come to Australia to write about the failed Lucky's restaurant chain. We follow his life in a series of scattered scenes: as a young GI in Australia who impersonates the jazz musician Benny Goodman as he falls in love and marries into a local Greek family as his chain of restaurants, Lucky's, becomes an unlikely phenomenon, before falling apart in an act of terrible violence and as the elderly Lucky, living alone in Sydney, attempts to make his fortune one more time. The protagonist, Vasilis 'Lucky' Mallios, lives up to his nickname – he's a man whose life seems to be buffeted along by the ever-changing winds of fate. Author Andrew Pippos spent his childhood in one-such café, and he channels that experience into his debut novel - an epic tale of a man who made and lost his fortune in the café world. Podcast Extra: Andrew Pippos and the bookshelf that made Lucky's Greek cafés and milk bars were once a staple of the Australian dining scene. The winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced on July 15. To help you navigate this year's shortlist, we've asked three experts - Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange from ABC RN's The Book Show, and Kate Evans from ABC RN's The Bookshelf - to share their thoughts on each book. Robbie Arnott's The Rain Heron might be considered a surprising choice for a prize focused on literature about Australia, given that it's set in an unnamed country that has experienced a recent coup - suggesting that the judges read the novel's setting as a non-literal version of Australia. Sydney features heavily in the shortlist, as a key setting for Lucky's, The Inland Sea and Adiga's Amnesty, and a lesser setting in Lohrey's The Labyrinth. The 2021 judges are Richard Neville (Mitchell Librarian, State Library of NSW), academic and literary critic Dr Melinda Harvey, literary critic Dr Bernadette Brennan, book critic Dr James Ley, and author and activist Sisonke Msimang.The 2020 Miles Franklin was won by Tara June Winch for The Yield.
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