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    To Name Those Lost: A Novel

    By Rohan Wilson

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    A powerful, suspenseful tale about a father and son in search of one another, this prize-winning novel based on real-life events is a classic western story of vengeance and redemption set against the sweeping, merciless grandeur of the Australian frontier.

    It is the summer of 1874. Launceston, a colonial outpost on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, hovers on the brink of anarchy, teeming with revolutionaries, convicts, drunks, crooked cops, and poor strugglers looking for a break. Outlaw Thomas Toosey races to this dangerous bedlam to find his motherless twelve-year-old son before the city swallows the child whole, but he is pursued by more than just the law. Hindering his progress at every turn is a man to whom he owes a terrible debt: the vengeful Irishman Fitheal Finn, whose hooded companion hides a grotesque secret.

    Brilliantly told in galloping, lyrical prose and infused with gothic tones reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Woodrell, and William Faulkner, To Name Those Lost is a gripping story of fatherly devotion and of one man’s search for moral bearings in a lawless society.

    Winner
    Victorian Premier's Literary Award
    Adelaide Festival Award for Best Novel
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781609453619
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      set in 1874 Launceston Tas , after abandoning his wife and son of many years Thomas Toosey must return to the city to search for his son William after his wife's sudden unexpected death. hardship envelopes the town and he his hunted by Titheal Flynn and his hooded companion (his badly disfigured hooded daughter Caislin) . lots of violence and great storytelling .