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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

• 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction, winner
• 2022 Queensland Literary Awards — The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year, shortlisted

See also

• 2021 in Australian literature

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.

• 2021 Australian novels
• Prime Minister's Literary Award-winning works
• Text Publishing books