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The Conversation
by David Brooks

A novel brimming with mystery, confessions, food and philosophy.

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Overview

A young woman and an older man meet by accident – a gust of wind – at a restaurant in Trieste and find themselves dining together. They embark upon a conversation of the kind that can perhaps only happen between total strangers – risky, philosophical, full of the most intimate stories and confessions. She has questions. He finds, as the wine flows, delicious dishes come and go, and the velvet night deepens, that he doesn’t have as many answers as he might have thought he had.

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Australian Book Review

‘This is a book to savour, like the bottle of Lacryma Christi that the characters share.’

Books+Publishing

‘This is a book for lovers of ideas, of good conversation, of impossible loves – and for those intellectuals who enjoy having heated arguments in cafes.’

The Herald Sun

‘Shadowing their words is a delicious rising tension. Unpredictable and satisfying.’

David Brooks

is the author of five previous collections of poetry and several novels and works of short fiction. His The Book of Sei (1985) was heralded as the most impressive debut in Australian short fiction since Peter Carey’s. His novel The Fern Tattoo (UQP, 2007) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Sydney Morning Herald called his collection of poetry, The Balcony (UQP, 2008), ‘an electric performance’. Until 2013 he taught Australian Literature at The University of Sydney. In recent years he has devoted his writing increasingly to animal advocacy. He lives with rescued sheep in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. In 2014 he was awarded a 2015/16 Australia Council Fellowship for services to Australian and international literature.