Book description
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling.
Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.
The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives
will be forever changed . . . Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter
Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a
moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also
powerfully contemporary.
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and
again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His other honors include the
Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he
has lived in New York City for 20 years.
