Eucalyptus
By Murray Bail
Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of story-telling itself.
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 . . .
- ISBN:
- 9781875847945
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 264
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Text Publishing
- Imprint:
- The Text Publishing Company
- Weight:
- 268 g