{"product_id":"the-lost-dog-michelle-de-kretser","title":"The Lost Dog — Michelle de Kretser","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"183\"\u003eTitle: The Lost Dog\u003cbr data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"80\"\u003eAuthor: Michelle de Kretser\u003cbr data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"110\"\u003ePublisher: Allen \u0026amp; Unwin\u003cbr data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"137\"\u003eISBN: 978-1-74175-606-7\u003cbr data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"163\"\u003eBinding: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"329\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"454\"\u003eCondition: Good second-hand condition. Light shelf wear and minor edge wear to covers with clean pages and a solid binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"622\"\u003eSet between contemporary Australia and memories of India, \u003cem data-start=\"514\" data-end=\"528\"\u003eThe Lost Dog\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly layered literary novel blending mystery, memory, migration, art, love, and exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"624\" data-end=\"933\"\u003eTom Loxley retreats to a remote bush shack to finish writing a book on Henry James when his beloved dog disappears. What begins as a search gradually unfolds into something far deeper — a meditation on displacement, identity, loneliness, history, and the uneasy relationship between civilisation and the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"1236\"\u003eMichelle de Kretser writes with remarkable precision and atmosphere, moving between landscapes, time periods, and emotional states with quiet elegance. The novel balances intellectual depth with emotional warmth, combining literary sophistication with an almost dreamlike sense of tension and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1238\" data-end=\"1314\"\u003eWidely regarded as one of the major Australian literary novels of the 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Astaroth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49082836975839,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/6815\/6383\/files\/IMG_5833.jpg?v=1778065063","url":"https:\/\/astarothbooks.com\/products\/the-lost-dog-michelle-de-kretser","provider":"Astaroth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}