The long, intense descriptions of Ravi's friendships and family in his early life come to nothing at all and the deaths of his family, while shocking, are ultimately meaningless in the story. The story floundered around with what felt like very little structure and while the other characters seemed interesting, each of them just seemed to peter out to nothing, fading away or simply being dispensed with, with no idea what they were there for in the first place. I found the two main characters to be passive, unsympathetic, un-engaging and two-dimensional. While there were certainly pieces of beautiful prose in this book, on the whole it simply did not deliver. One of the more disappointing books I've read this year, and why de Kretser won the Miles Franklin for this is anyone's guess.
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