A Long Way from Home (Hardcover) by Peter Carey

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A Long Way From Home is a long and bumpy ride courtesy of the Redex Race in Australia all the while exploring the tensions of Australia's racial tension between the white people and the aborigines. We get a taste of the traumatic history surrounding the Aboriginal people when Mrs. Bob's happens u...

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Irene and Tisch Bobs love fast cars. In 1954, they decide to enter the Redix Trial - a competition to circumnavigate Australia - which they hope to win and use to publicize their new car dealership. As navigator, they bring their neighbor Willie Bachhuber, who has his own checkered history, some ...

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A Long Way From Home is a long and bumpy ride courtesy of the Redex Race in Australia all the while exploring the tensions of Australia's racial tension between the white people and the aborigines. We get a taste of the traumatic history surrounding the Aboriginal people when Mrs. Bob's happens u...

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Melbourne, Australia being my second home, I always love to read Peter Carey. This one does a good job of telling the story of 1950s era Oz, with an interesting take on the issues of Aboriginal relations and gender equality as they inform Australian identity. (Brian)

from siri51

Lots of stuff going on in this story - the 1954 Redex trial, complicated marital relationships, the navigator with an identity crises; thought he was of German descent but turns out he is aboriginal.