It is also an important book.Ĭentred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. It's an unashamedly big book - big in scope, ambition and physical size - and well-suited to the Gulf country it sings. So comprehensive is Wright's vision that reading it is like looking at her world from the inside.
It takes you outside the expected scope of narrative time to a place that is simultaneously familiar and astoundingly new. Alexis Wright's second novel is a vast, sprawling affair that extends magically beyond its hefty 500 pages.
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