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Australia Day

Australia Day

by Melanie Cheng
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/07/2017

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**Winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction**

**Shortlisted for the 2017 Readings New Australian Fiction Award**

An important and illuminating debut fiction collection about Australian life and identity.

Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes about are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim.

What they have in common-no matter where they come from-is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories explore universal themes of love, loss, family and identity, while at the same time asking crucial questions about the possibility of human connection in a globalised world.

Melanie Cheng is an important new voice, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary Australia. Her effortless, unpretentious realism balances an insider’s sensitivity and understanding with an outsider’s clear-eyed objectivity, showing us a version of ourselves richer and more multifaceted than anything we’ve seen before.

ISBN:
9781925498592
9781925498592
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-07-2017
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x23mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner.

Of Chinese-Australian heritage, she was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne.

In 2016 she won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

Australia Day is her first book.

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