Award-winning novelist Elliot Perlman's second book of Catvinkle's adventures is another wise, wonderful and warm-hearted tale.
Elliot Perlman (Author)
Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars won the Age Book of the Year Award,
the Betty Trask Award (UK), the Fellowship of Australian Writers'
Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the John
Llewellyn-Rhys/Mail On Sunday Book of the Year Award (UK) as well
as for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Elliot Perlman also
co-wrote the screenplay for the film of Three Dollars, which
received the Australian Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay as well as the A.F.I. Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay.
The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, a collection of stories, was a
bestseller in the US where it was named a New York Times Book
Review 'Editors' Choice' and received the Steele Rudd Award for the
best Australian short story collection in its year of
publication.
Perlman's second novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity, was a bestseller
in France where it was described as 'one of the best novels of
recent years, a complete success'(Le Monde). In Germany it was
called a 'literary sensation' (Deutschlandradio), 'an impressive,
iridescent all-encompassing view of feeling' (Der Spiegel), and
described as having "the virtues of the great modern European
novel' (S ddeutsche Zeitung). It was a bestseller in the United
States where it was described as having 'traces of Dickens's range
and of George Eliot's generous humanist spirit' (New York Times)
and named a New York Times Book Review 'Editors' Choice', a New
York Times Book Review 'Notable Book of the Year' and a Washington
Post 'Editors' Choice' as well as one of its all-time dozen
favourites 'on the pain of love'. In the UK it was described as 'a
colossal achievement....a tour de force...(in which) at the end, in
a comprehensive, an almost Shakespearian way, Perlman picks up
every loose thread and knots it' (The Observer) and named a Sunday
Telegraph 'Book of the Year'. In Australia it was shortlisted for
the Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as for the Queensland
Premier's Award for Fiction.
Perlman's bestselling The Street Sweeper, 'Excellent . . .
harrowing, humane and brilliant' (The Times (UK)) ' is a towering
achievement- a strikingly modern literary novel.' (Entertainment
Weekly (US)) '. . . an epic tale that spans decades and bridges
generations while chronicling the predominant chapters of racial
persecution perpetrated in the darkest hours of the twentieth
century . . . wherein Perlman shines a fresh light on the struggle
of the American civil rights movement . . . The narrative pull is
breathtaking as he pulls off the supreme feat of articulating the
unspeakable . . . This stunning novel works and matters, because of
the expert way Perlman has recorded both the agonized howl of the
past and the plaintive echoes of the present' (San Francisco
Chronicle) in ' a wonderfully rich, engaging and multilayered story
. . . from an author of rare erudition and compassion.' (The
Washington Post) ' Perlman brilliantly makes personal both the
Holocaust and the civil rights movement, and crafts a moving and
literate page-turner.' (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) ' Here
Perlman burnishes his reputation as a masterful storyteller who
captures the cadences of consciousness and conversation and the
varieties and vagaries of cruelty, courage and compassion . . . You
will, in all likelihood, find it unforgettable.' (Jerusalem
Post)
Elliot Perlman's first novel for children, The Adventures of
Catvinkle, ' is an instant children's classic, that you enjoy as
much as the little ones you know, and that you start giving as a
gift because of its inherent, feel-good message.' (Sunday Age) ' A
charming and whimsical tale . . . replete with gentle lessons . . .
about empathy, bravery and friendship . . . a simply a delightful
and easy-to-read story with laugh-out-loud dialogue that doesn't
talk down to its readers.' (Books+Publishing) ' . . . exactly the
sort of book I loved being given as a child, a book you can
cherish,' (Sydney Morning Herald) ' where themes of social
inclusion, anti-racism and anti-bullying are treated gently in this
delightful, easy-to-read story . . . and t here are many quirky,
humorous moments . . .' (Magpies) 'A gorgeous book guaranteed to
give great joy.' (Better Reading) The Adventures of Catvinkle was a
Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book 2019, and was
shortlisted for the 2019 Children's Peace Literature Award.
Perlman's Maybe the Horse Will Talk ' is a thriller-like, stylish,
compelling novel that manages at once to limn injustices wrought by
corporate acquisitiveness, misogyny and discrimination, and to
affirm the transformative capacity of empathy. And while there is a
deep and steady seriousness . . . it is also funny as well as
exhilarating and humane, pitching longing, love and kindness
hopefully and inspiringly against violence.' (Weekend Australian) '
A timely look at sexual harassment and corporate corruption that
manages to be laugh-out-loud funny' (Sydney Morning Herald) where '
t he novelist's mastery of the sentence is on full display in the
rapid-fire dialogue between his characters . . . If Maybe the Horse
will Talk stands apart in Perlman's oeuvre for its intention to
make readers smile, it continues the author's interest in
addressing social concerns through fiction.' (The Saturday Age)
Elliot Perlman is the recipient of the Queensland Premier's award
for Advancing Public Debate and has been described by the Times
Literary Supplement (UK) as 'Australia's outstanding social
novelist', by Le Nouvelle Observateur (France) as the 'Zola
d'Australie' and by Lire (France) as 'the classic of tomorrow', one
of the '50 most important writers in the world'.
Catvinkle and the Missing Tulips, a novel for children and a sequel
to The Adventures of Catvinkle, is scheduled for publication in
October 2020.
Laura Stitzel (Illustrator)
Laura Stitzel is an independent artist in Melbourne, Australia. She
has been working as an illustrator, animator and author in
Australia and Canada since 2008.
Laura is an illustrator of children's books including Elliot
Perlman's The Adventures of Catvinkle (Penguin Random House), and
her own picture books, Mr Mo Starts to Grow (Hachette Australia)
and Moonlight Mums (Penguin Random House). Her art has also
appeared in many children's television series over the past decade.
She has contributed background art and character animation to
programs such as the Emmy Award winning Peg + Cat, Disney's Space
Chickens in Space, Warner Bros'Ginger Snaps and the world's longest
running children's series, Arthur.
Laura has also illustrated and animated for a wide range of media
including commercials, short films, print media and television
series for all ages.
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