"1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalyptus, down to the last tree... Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of story-telling itself.
""Wonderful... brilliantly told... a moving, exhilarating love story."" Australian"
By:
Murray Bail, Murray Bail Imprint: Text Publishing Company Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 291g ISBN:9781875847945 ISBN 10: 1875847944 Pages: 264 Publication Date:01 November 1998 Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Short-listed for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1998
Short-listed for Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999
Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1999
Shortlisted for APA Design Awards: Australian Paper Best Designed Hardback 1998.
Shortlisted for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1998.
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999.
Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1999.
Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book South East Asia and South Pacific 1999.
Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book South East Asia and South Pacific 1999.
