Shortlisted for the 2013 Stella Prize

Questions of Travel – Michelle de Kretser

Fiction · Allen & Unwin

Questions of Travel

About the book

“de Kretser uses her articulate, thinking characters as vehicles for her contemplation and intellectual dissection of the world.

– 2013 Stella Prize Judges

michelle de krester

About the author


Miichelle de Kretser

Judges’ report


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