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2021 novel by Australian author Nicolas Rothwell

Red Heaven
AuthorNicolas Rothwell
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherText Publishing
Publication date3 August 2021
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages378 pp.
Awards2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction, winner
ISBN9781922458049

Red Heaven is a 2021 novel by the Australian author Nicolas Rothwell.

It was the winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction.

Synopsis

The unnamed boy at the centre of this novel is raised by two aunts in Europe: Serghiana, who is the daughter of a Soviet general in the communist regime who goes on to work as a film producer in California; Madame Ady, who is a fashionable Viennese woman married to a famous conductor. How these two conflicting aunts try to influence the boy will have a profound effect on him for the rest of his life.

Notes

  • Dedication: 'In memory of NS, brother spirit'
  • Epigraph: "The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come."

Critical reception

In Australian Book Review reviewer Paul Giles noted: "Abjuring the idea of the novel as a mere social construction, Red Heaven attempts instead to resuscitate ‘ghosts’ buried deep within the narrator’s psyche." The reviewer concluded that the novel "is a work of genuine intellectual exploration, original and provocative on its own hermetic terms."

Awards

See also

References

  1. "Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  2. ^ Burke, Kelly (13 December 2022). "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2022: Nicolas Rothwell and Mark Willacy win major prizes". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 December 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  3. ""Giving breath to the ghosts"". Australian Book Review, October 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  4. "Austlit — Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell — Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
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