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After his human-rights activist wife is slaughtered with her little son in Sri Lanka, Ravi flees to Sydney, Australia, where he faces prejudice as he applies for asylum and gets a job in computers with a big travel company. Laura works for the company as a tourism writer, having returned home from London, where Australia, with stars, aborigines, and cities so secondhand they need the outback, is regarded as exotic. More than all the multiple personal intricacies in Ravi’s and Laura’s alternating narratives, the contemporary work scene will grab readers—the corporate drivel (Moral indignation is not managerial), the office politics with the daily e-mails, the technician who installs new software and cannot explain how to use it. Best of all is the wry take on tourists. As a travel writer, Laura knows they do not want ordinary life: That is what they were on holiday from. Forget the unwilling travelers like Ravi, the soldiers, and the millions made homeless. This ironic, contemporary view of finding home makes for heartfelt drama. --Hazel Rochman

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Praise for Questions of Travel"This is a novel unlike any other I have read....Questions of Travel is about uprootedness and travel, about tourism and flight from terror, about the trivial and the terrible....It seems to proceed with an uncanny lightness, in glimpses and sudden shifts. De Kretser is a master storyteller and again and again prepares small--and large--shocks that explode tens of pages later, and cannot be given away."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian"Studded with fine and funny writing, bursts of affecting drama, and disarming images."--New York Times Book Review"Questions of Travel should ensure her place as a serious international novelist of the first rank."--Economist"De Kretser's brilliantly observed new novel explores the meaning of travel....She offers deadly darts of observation that puncture clichés and deflate false enthusiasm. In the end she leaves you flat on the ground, possessed of harder truths."--Publisher's Weekly (Boxed Review)"Exquisite, haunting....As she traces Laura's and Ravi's lives over four decades, de Kretser's style is poetic, indelible, and often breathtaking in its beauty."--Library Journal (Starred Review)"Questions of Travel is that gleaming thing that makes everything around it seem dull in comparison. It's one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read."--The Globe and Mail"De Kretser writes movingly of the sudden attachments and partings that mark her characters' peripatetic lives. And her evocations of place are wonderfully precise... Even as she evokes the pleasures of travel, however, de Kretser wants us to think about its underlying meaning and purpose... She raises profound questions-is the connectedness of modern life an improvement over the rootedness of old? Is any attempt to confront a foreign culture fated to end in dubious simplifications?-but like all the best novelists, she leaves the answers up to her readers." -David Evans, The Independent on Sunday"As surprising as it is ambitious, Questions of Travel is a satisfying journey through the dislocations of contemporary life." -Arminta Wallace, Irish Times

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Product details

Hardcover: 480 pages

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (May 14, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0316219223

ISBN-13: 978-0316219228

Product Dimensions:

6.5 x 1.5 x 9.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

Average Customer Review:

3.0 out of 5 stars

90 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

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I'm pretty old now. I've read a lot. Knowing life is short, I do not hesitate to abondon books that have failed to engage me after a couple of chapters. I must admit that I wondered at first whether Questions of Travel would make the cut.It features two unprepossessing characters, utterly separated - in terms of geography, character, social milieu, race and most certainly in terms of their experience of travel - for almost all of the book. Neither is really loveable, yet i grew to love them both. The sense of each sits with me now, two weeks after finishing the book. As in The Hamilton Case, de Kretser has nailed something profound about human experience - things I have not found nailed elsewhere in fiction. In the earlier novel, it was something about how dealing with an unloveable parent can made a grown child nastier still. In this book - and I haven't processed it yet, it is all still swirling - it is something about being alone in the great world and about how it is possible to function there having no future whatsoever.It includes a cracker of a satire on a Lonely Planet-like publishing company. Forgetting the profound bits, at regular intervals these bits made me snort with laughter.

Michelle de Kretser's wonderful ideas regarding the meaning of travel. Travel as a tourist, as an escape from evil or personal pain or a quest for something more, is all dealt with here in a very skillful way. Laura, the unloved woman searching for a life, spends years traveling from one country to another and then, finding nothing, settles back into her home country. Here she travels through various relationships in a desperate attempt to find love, life and home. Ravi, the refugee from Sri Lanka travels to escape savagery and enormous grief and finds there is no relief, especially amongst those who, from lack of similar experiences, would never understand. The story is told as a tandem tale where life is shown as a journey back to the beginning. The protagonists barely meet but end up in the same place - exactly where they started from. A beautiful and poetic read.

I don't think so. I'm pleased she doesn't read reviews because if she did she wouldn't like this one. I struggled to keep myself interested until the male character (one of two main characters) appeared. Thank goodness for the few Australians who tried to help Ravi settle in Australia. The political undertones together with the subtle references to Australian humour kept me entertained.The characterization of the traveler kept me bored and disinterested until with a bit of maturity she had the gumption to express herself at the electoral box and (I hope many Australians will think and do the same) with it came the realization that she could control her life. Living happily ever after with a man just because he had declared his love for her was not the answer she needed. I found the ending not at all surprising, just simplistic.

This book has two intertwined stories with the two main characters from different parts of the world. Due to tragedies, both of the main characters lose their sense of connectedness in life and spend the rest of their lives floating. One story is very confronting about people vulnerable to those seeking power at any cost including a willingness to commit atrocities, intimidate and terrify the community. The traumatized victims are at the mercy of those who offer conditional help after having their perverse needs met first.I pushed myself to finish the book but it was a depressing and bleak view of the world with nothing redemptive. I've read other books like "Burial Rites" that are bleak and depressing but I felt an empathy and connection with the characters in that book that I didn't feel in this book.

I found this book quite difficult to "get in to", but there were enough parts that I enjoyed to keep reading. I think I have learnt a lot about Sri Lanka, it's politics and the experiences that some refugees have been through.Whilst I could understand Ravi's character, I found it difficult to relate to Laura.I was trying to work out how it would end, and whilst I could never have predicted the actual end, I also thought it came too quickly. Still, a message is there, I think, about the importance of family and having a sense of belonging, and how sad someone's life can be without that, and how important that sense of love is in coping with what life dishes out.I will probably read other books by Michelle de Kretser, but I think I need a break before I do so. The ideas and language used in the book are interesting, but at times it seemed clunky with an odd idea thrown up and then not explored to a conclusion.

My first time reading De Kretser and I'm hooked. The novel tracks two different people and their relationship with travel: escapist, urgent, superficial, unwanted. It is particularly evocative for anyone who has ever travelled alone and for too long, wondering what the hell they are doing here. More than that, you feel enormously for the two protagonists, who dont meet until late in the book. the parts set in Sri Lanka are confronting and are meant to be. I dont think anyone can look at an asylum seeker in the same way after reading this. But i also am haunted by laura Fraser, an unconventional heroine whose journeying is generally internal. as much as we experience we can never hope to express. So, poor Laura remains unknown by her friends and family, but not to us. A beautiful book but not always a happy one.

The writing, especially the opening chapters, completely intrigued and captivated me. But, you knew there was a but coming, the device of short chapters and alternating stories completely wore me down. The book was far too long, my interest long since waned. I lost track of the peripheral characters. Some of the 'stream of consciousness' - as I have referred to it - made me stop, re-read and in many instances decide that it was either profound, or completely unnecessary. The early promise was not fulfilled. It was a chore to finish this over long book.

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