The Cartographer
A Historical, Crime, Australia book. I can see how this will be a love it or yawn at it read. I...
‘if ... you enjoyed safran foer’s EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, you are going to want to read this book’ BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHERMelbourne, 1959. An 11-year-old boy witnesses a murder as he spies through the window of a strange house. God, whom he no longer counts as a friend, obviously has a pretty screwed-up sense of humour: just one year before, the boy had looked on helplessly as his twin brother, Tom, suffered a violent death. Now, having been seen by the angry murderer, he is a kid on the run. With only a shady grandfather, a professional standover man and an incongruous local couple as adult mentors, he takes refuge in the dark drains and grimy tunnels beneath the city, transforming himself into a series of superheroes and creating a rather unreliable map to plot out places where he is unlikely to cross paths with the bogeyman.A bold, captivating and outrageously funny novel about a boy who refuses to give in and the numerous shifty, dodgy and downright malicious bastards he has to contend with on his grand adventure of loss and...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780732293161 / 732293162
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Melbourne, 1959. An 11-year-old boy witnesses a murder as he spies through the window of a strange house. God, whom he no longer counts as a friend, obviously has a pretty screwed-up sense of humour: just one year before, the boy had looked on helplessly as his twin brother, Tom, suffered a violent death. (falling from some monkey bars... I can see how this will be a love it or yawn at it read. I really enjoyed the fragility of the characters and loved the protagonist's voice most of the time. I liked the idea of identity the author played with, I got to know the names of many of the characters, except the protagonist, if it was mentioned, I missed it. But I think that... I am not at all sure how I feel about this book. It has some great aspects and some not so good. So..... middle of the range for me.We are told that this tale takes place in the late 1950s, a year after Tom's death in a playground accident. Tom is the protagonist 's twin brother who is called at various times The Cartographer, the Outlaw...
