Peter Carey Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Het is 1954. Irene Bobs is een onafhankelijke vrouw zonder enige angst. Boven alles houdt ze van hard rijden. Haar man Titch is de beste autoverkoper van Zuidoost-Australië en samen besluiten ze mee te doen met de Redex Trial, een meedogenloze race rond het continent, over wegen die geen enkele auto kan overleven. Samen met hun navigator Willie Bachhuber, een mislukte leraar met een obsessie voor landkaarten, beginnen ze aan een tocht die hen, zonder enige waarschuwing, ver weg voert van het witte Australië dat ze zo goed kennen. Ver van huis is spannend en verrassend, een met zeer veel vaart geschreven verhaal dat de lezer keer op keer op het verkeerde been weet te zetten. Een meesterwerk vol herkenning, over wie we zijn, hoe we hier zijn gekomen en wat we elkaar onderweg hebben aangedaan.

Als Margarets verloofde John in de jaren zestig wordt opgenomen vanwege een ernstige depressie komt ze voor een moeilijke keuze te staan: gaat ze ondanks zijn aandoening met hem verder of gaat ze de pijn die het haar kan opleveren liever uit de weg? Denk me weg is het onvergetelijke verhaal dat voortvloeit uit deze allesbepalende beslissing. Het middelpunt van het verhaal is Michael, de oudste zoon van Margaret en John. Een briljante maar angstige muziekfanaat, die het leven alleen aankan door er de spot mee te drijven. Een even belangrijke rol spelen Michaels jongere zusje en broertje - de verstandige en betrouwbare Celia en de ambitieuze en uiterst beheerste Alec. Zij doen er samen met hun moeder alles aan om voor Michael te zorgen, die steeds verwarder en wisselvalliger wordt.

When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so many parts of her country, and so the doors of some 5000 American places of incarceration also opened. Both countries' secrets threatened to pour out.Was this a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America. That conflict dates back to the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane in 1943, stretches forward to America's security interests in Pine Gap and commercial interests everywhere, and has as its most outrageous act the coup of 1975. Funded by his property-developer mate Woody Townes, Felix is going to write Gaby's biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country.But how to get Gaby to co-operate? What role does her film-star mother have to play? And what, after all, does Woody really want?

London 2010, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her employer at the museum, aware of Catherine's grief, gives her a special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. Linked by the mysterious automaton, Catherine's and Henry's stories intertwine across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

"Parrot and Olivier in America "has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier--an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville--is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States--ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution--Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together--in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands--a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.

Zijn verborgen bestaan is het verhaal van Che, een vroegrijpe jongen die wordt opgevoed door zijn grootmoeder. Hij mag geen televisie kijken en ook geen kranten lezen. Zijn ouders waren in de jaren zestig radicale studenten en worden nog altijd gezocht door de politie. Wanneer Che eindelijk de ware identiteit van zijn ouders ontdekt, wil hij niets liever dan hen ontmoeten. Zijn droom lijkt werkelijkheid te worden wanneer hij ontvoerd wordt door een vrouw die volgens hem zijn moeder is. Samen slaan ze op de vlucht: een wonderlijke, adembenemende reis die hen van schimmige New Yorkse motels naar het platteland van Australië voert. Onderweg moet Che antwoord zien te vinden op de vragen die de rest van zijn leven zullen bepalen: wie is zijn echte vader? Wie is zijn moeder? En wie is hijzelf?

Theft: A Love Story - from the author of Amnesia , Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang , Peter Carey's Booker longlisted novel of art, friendship and fraud.

In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and anime, and explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan.

Focusing on the legal, contractual and regulatory issues of the commercial exploitation of artistic works, this book outlines and explains key areas such copyright protection; performance rights, artists recording agreement and group management; music publishing agreements; regulation of the advertising industry; and film and television distribution. The book also provides guidance on how to advise clients to avoid pitfalls involved in this area including defamation, obscenity and contempt of court.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only does the magazine fall for the hoax, but the local authorities also sue its editor for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle, leaps to his feet. At this moment a horrified Chubb is confronted by the malevolent being he has himself manufactured...

Forget the limpid, dreamlike views we saw on the television during the Olympics, the paradise of hedonism represented by Bondi Beach and the rest; Sydney is a savage city, as violent in its setting and its weather as it is in its history. This is a brief and heartfelt account of an expatriate writer revisiting his past, examining as he does so the paradox of a blessed country with a bloody, accursed past. Above all, this book is about Australian mateship, and it is the biographies, jokes and stories of Peter's friends and contemporaries that provide the backbone.

In dit boek vertelt Ned Kelly, de beroemdste struikrover van Australië, zijn levensverhaal voor zijn dochter.

The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. Maggs, a figure both frightening and mysteriously compelling, is so in thrall to the notion of a gentlemanly class that he's risked his life to come back to his torturers. His task is to shed his false consciousness and understand that his true destiny lies in Australia.

Die finanzielle Situation von Sams Familie ist mehr als instabil, da die Familie vom Glücksspiel lebt. Doch eines Tages sind sie pleite und Sam versucht seine Familie vor dem völligen Ruin zu bewahren.

Peter Carey, als "phantasiereichster Autor unseres Jahrhunderts" bezeichnet, entwirft in "Illywhacker" zwei fiktive Staaten mit eigener Kultur. Erzählt wird die turbulente Geschichte von Tristan Smith, einem behinderten Sohn einer Theaterleiterin. Das Buch vereint Romanze, Abenteuer, Agentengeschichte und Sozialsatire.

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories.

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.

'My name is Tristan Smith. I was born in Chemin Rouge in Efica - which is to say as much to you, I bet, if I declared I was from the moon.' The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously willful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.

The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived to begin her long-overdue audit of the family business. But this is no ordinary investigation. Maria is eight months' pregnant, Granny Catchprice is at war with her offspring, and Benny, her grandson, wants to become an angel...

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.

Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 139-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with aviators, car salesmen, Chinamen and impresarios, Peter Carey's novel is a contemporary classic. 'Illywhacker is a tour de force, both funny and moving, the work of an original at full stretch.' Financial Times 'It is impossible to convey in a review the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose.' London Review of Books

Niedergeschlagen, deprimiert und in eine alkoholgetränkte Depression verfallend, nachdem er einen Mann im Dienst getötet hat, hat Inspektor Kurt Wallander beschlossen, die Polizei endgültig zu verlassen. Als ein alter Bekannter, ein Anwalt, Wallanders Hilfe bei der Untersuchung der verdächtigen Umstände im Zusammenhang mit dem Tod seines Vaters sucht, möchte Kurt nicht zuhören. Doch als der Anwalt ebenfalls tot aufgefunden wird, dreimal erschossen, erkennt Wallander, dass er falsch lag, nicht zuzuhören. Gegen sein besseres Urteilsvermögen kehrt er zur Arbeit zurück, um einen Fall zu leiten, der sich nun zu einem Doppelmord entwickelt haben könnte. Eine neue, weibliche Ermittlerin hat in seiner Abwesenheit zur Polizei gestoßen, und er übernimmt die Rolle des Mentors für sie, während sie gemeinsam versuchen, das Rätsel zu lösen. Ein rätselhafter Geschäftstycoon, der sich hinter einer Entourage von schroffen Sekretärinnen und strenger Sicherheit verbirgt, scheint der gemeinsame Nenner in den beiden Todesfällen zu sein. Doch während Wallander dem Mörder auf der Spur ist, ist jemand auf Wallanders Spur und schließt schnell auf.

Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.

Vaak krijgt een bepaalde bevolkingsgroep - joden, kleurlingen, allochtonen - de schuld van alles wat er mis is in de maatschappij. Volgens deze volstrekt arbitraire methode zou deze keuze evengoed op dikke mensen kunnen vallen. Dus waarom zou er niet ooit een revolutionaire groepering de macht grijpen en vervolgens beweren dat we in een aards paradijs zouden leven als er maar geen dikke mensen meer bestonden? In het titelverhaal van deze bundel beschrijft Peter Carey wat er gebeurt als een groep dikke mensen in deze situatie probeert een contrarevolutie op touw te zetten. De verhalen van Carey zijn allegorieën waarin, als in een droom, iets vreemd en dreigends op volstrekt verklaarbare wijze de macht heeft overgenomen. In de verhalen worden ogenschijnlijk bizarre voorvallen door Carey zo overtuigend beschreven dat ze op de alledaagse werkelijkheid lijken.