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    Lost Voices
    Lost Voices
    Lost Voices
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    Lost Voices

    By Christopher Koch

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    Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award and an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, Christopher Koch returns with Lost Voices, a remarkable new novel that confirms him as one of our most significant and compelling novelists.
    Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Walter- a wealthy lawyer who lives alone in a tasmanian farmhouse passed down through the family-for help. As he is drawn into Walter's rarefied world, Hugh discovers that both his uncle and the farmhouse are links to a notorious episode in the mid nineteenth century. Walter's father, Martin, was living in the house when it was raided by members of an outlaw community run by Lucas Wilson, a charismatic ex-soldier attempting to build a utopia. But like later societies with communitarian ideals, Nowhere Valley was controlled by the gun, with Wilson as benevolent dictator. twenty-year-old Martin's sojourn in the Valley as Wilson's disciple has become an obsession with Walter Dixon: one which haunts his present and keeps the past tantalizingly close. As Walter encourages Hugh's ambition to become an artist, and again comes to his aid when one of Hugh's friends is charged with murder, the way life's patterns repeat themselves from one generation to another becomes eerily apparent. Dramatic, insightful and evocative, Lost Voices is an intriguing double narrative that confirms Koch as one of our most significant and compelling novelists.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9780730499510
    Lost Voices
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    Christopher Koch

    Christopher Koch was born and educated in Tasmania. Most of his life has been spent in Sydney, where he worked for some years as a radio producer in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been a full-time writer since 1972, winning international praise and a number of awards for his novels. One of his novels, The Year of Living Dangerously, was made into a film by Peter Weir. Koch has twice won the Miles Franklin Award for fiction: for The Doubleman and Highways to a War. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature.

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    • 4/5
      This was not a book that I would have read but I had to read it for a book group. However I did enjoy it. The writing was very good and Koch was able to vividly create a sense of time and place. The characters were well drawn. The thing that threw me a little was that the first and third sections were set in the same time period and the story moved from one section to the other, while the mid section was set in the convict days in Tasmania. There was one character in common to all three sections and there were similar story lines for example father-son relationships but it seemed to me an unusual way to write a story. I have heard and read that some people really liked the second section but I was more engrossed in the first story and did not like having to change. I thought the depiction of the relationship between Hugh and his uncle Walter was very well done, as was the relationship between Hugh and his childhood friend Bob Wall. Hugh Dixon goes to meet his uncle Walter for the first time when his father gets into financial trouble and this is the start of their friendship. His uncle understands his dreams of wanting to become an artist whereas his father does not. In the second section set in convict times we learn of Walters father Martins friendship with Dalton and Wilson who have escaped from Port Arthur. After they raid Martin's fathers farm Martin joins them as they journey to Nowhere Valley where Wilson plans to set up his ideal community on the understanding that he will be able to write Wilson's story, but not reveal where he is. The third section focusses on the story of Hugh and his childhood friend Bob Wall. Bob finds himself in trouble and Walter is again called in to help. This is a well written book, well worth the read in spite of my reservations.
    • 4/5
      This story of life in colonial Tasmania was thoroughly enjoyable and the writers descpription of the Tasmanian mountain landscape was magical.Part 1 and 3 of the book tell the story of Hugh Dixon in the 1950's, an aspiring artist living in Hobart. Part 2 , set in the previous century,is the story of his great grandfather Martin Dixon and his encounter with some escaped convicts, turned bushrangers and their attempts to found a "Utopia" in the mountainous wilderness. This section was truly enjoyable. The characters really came to life for me. It is told to Hugh by his Uncle Walter, whom he did not meet until he was about nineteen, as his father had become estranged from his family.Uncle Walter becomes a strong influence in Hugh's life and helps him to achieve his ambitions.Part 3 disappointed a little. The story of his friend Bob Wall being charged with murder and his uncle successfully defending him in court, seemed a little corny" after the brilliance of Part 2.However I think Christopher Koch is a beautiful writer and well deserving of his Miles Franklin award and Booker nomination.

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