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An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis - Isn't that supposed to align the sleeper with the planet's positive energy flow, or something? She would think so - I made it up nicely with a fresh fitted sheet, the pale pink one, since she had a famous feel for colour, and pink is flattering even to skin that has turned yellowish.-Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit - But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer - She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her - From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge - The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicola's gruelling treatments - Garner's dialogue is pitch perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale.
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Kong chu lai de fang jian: The spare room / Helen Garner
2010, Shang zhou chu ban
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2010-03, Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag
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Habitacion de Invitados
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Like Carol Shields, Joan Didion and Kate Grenville in previous years, Helen Garner is a bestselling writer waiting to be discovered by a British audience. The Spare Room is an electrifying novel about the distance a friendship must travel, and the depths it must plumb, when confronted by the threat of death. It is full of wisdom, dark laughter and truth.
Prizes for The Spare Room:
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Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction
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Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction
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Barbara Jefferis Award
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Shortlisted, WA Premier’s Awards, 2008
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Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction
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Shortlisted, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
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Shortlisted, Australian Literary Society Gold Medal
- Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award
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