Shanghai Dancing
Shanghai Dancing
ISBN: 9780957831186
Publication Date: 15 March 2002
Shanghai Dancing is the most highly regarded and popular novel by multi-award winning Australian author, Brian Castro. In it, his fictional persona AntonÃo Castro faces dispossession in Australia after the death of his parents.
In an attempt to recover something of the inheritance that has been denied him, he brings his parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and their tangled relationships, back to life, by recounting their stories and by rediscovering, in the photographs and documents and secrets which they left behind, the defections and betrayals which have led to his own disinheritance.
About the Author
Brian Castro is the author of the prize-winning Australian classic
Shanghai Dancing, and recipient of the 2014 Patrick White Literary Award. His novels include
The Garden Book and
The Bath Fugues, both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and Street to Street, loosely based on the life of the poet Christopher Brennan. His most recent work, a verse novel titled Blindness and Rage, won the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and the Mascara Avant-garde Award for Fiction. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Adelaide University.