The Mountain (novel)

The Mountain
First edition
AuthorDrusilla Modjeska
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
PublisherVintage
Publication date2012
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages432 pp
ISBN9781741666502
Preceded byThe Orchard 

The Mountain (2012) is a novel by Australian author Drusilla Modjeska.[1] It was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award.

Overview

The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a Papua New Guinea university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia.

Critical response

Lloyd Jones in The Guardian noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire."[2] Eleanor Limprecht in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things.[3]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef
2013 ALS Gold Medal—Longlisted
Australian Book Industry AwardsAustralian Literary Fiction Book of the YearShortlisted
Indie Book AwardsFictionShortlisted[4]
Miles Franklin Award—Shortlisted[5]
2014 Barbara Jefferis Award—Shortlisted[6]

References

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