The Death of Noah Glass - Softcover

Gail Jones is an academic and the author of two short-story collections and seven novels. Her fiction has won many awards in Australia and been longlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Translated into 16 languages, she has had writing residencies in India, Ireland, Germany, France, the US, China and Italy. She teaches writing across the globe and is Professor of Writing at Western Sydney University.

"Weaving together multiple narratives (Noah's, Martin's, and Evie's), the novel sketches a family portrait full of love, loss, and regret."―Kirkus

"An oblique and poetic novel... a vivid, unsettling study of mortality."―Sunday Times [UK]

"Told masterfully from the perspectives of three finely drawn characters, The Death of Noah Glass combines an enjoyable escapade involving art theft, mafia conspiracy, romance, and a suspicious death with a literary exploration of grief, identity and the power of the past to damage present lives.’―Books+Publishing

"Noah Glass is among (Jones’s) finest work and I expect it will be among this year’s outstanding novels."―The Australian

"Swooningly lyrical, carrying the reader along in the wake of its beauty." ―Australian Book Review

"A book about ways of seeing and about the gaps that persist between vision and understanding. And in the end this novel...is also about patrimony as the pattern and measure that fathers leave behind them."―Saturday Paper

"Dominated by rich and vivid descriptions of personal interiors and public exteriors, of thought processes and intense associations."―Herald Sun

"In poetic prose that calls for slower reading to fully appreciate its metaphoric meaning, the narrative, as the mystery is untangled, explores the effects of grief and loss and the theme of time. You could re-read this book for the pleasure and stimulation of the language alone."―Good Reading

Praise for A GUIDE TO BERLIN

"Brimming with rich descriptions...A powerful exploration of biography, memory and meaning."―Daily Telegraph

"Jones’ sensitivity to the vibrancy of things demonstrates a Nabokovian vividness.’―The Independent

"A thoughtful study of the machinations of memory."―The Observer

"An ode to detail... A meditation on memory, travel and grief, on self-fashioning and on literary friendship."―Times Literary Supplement

Praise for DREAMS OF SPEAKING

"Leaves a lovely, subtle legacy."―The Times

"Beautiful and honest."―Daily Telegraph

"A work that is both determinedly cerebral and emotionally alive.’―Irish Times

"Shards of poetry stud Jones’ writing like diamonds as she switches masterfully between a lyrical and academic register."―Independent

"Startling images in spare prose."―The Guardian

Praise for FIVE BELLS

"Ambitious, beautifully written."―Reading Matters

"Thoughtful, intelligent and intensely lyrical."―The Guardian

"A story peopled by achingly real characters, memorably related in delicate, ornate prose, and throbbing with loss."―Independent on Sunday

"Jones’s writing has the intensity of a dream, and the pattern she makes of the characters’ lives is beautiful, managing to combine tension with lyricism."―The Times

"An intense, poetic tale."―Financial Times