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FROM HERE ON, MONSTERS

Elizabeth Bryer

In a city locked in a kind of perpetual twilight, an antiquarian bookseller accepts a very strange commission - the valuation of a rare codex. Within its fragile pages is the story of another book, another codex, but unravelling the mystery may mean unravelling the nature of reality itself...

A noirish mystery. A speculative fiction with a social conscience. An unbridled imagination, and a scholar's bibliomanic preoccupations. From Here On, Monsters stretches the boundaries of what we consider fiction in weird and totally wonderful ways...

Elizabeth Bryer is a translator (from Spanish) and writer. She was inaugural translations editor of The Lifted Brow, and she is still hanging around at Brow Books. FROM HERE ON, MONSTERS is her first novel.

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Book Published 2019-08-01 by Picador Australia

Comments

"Elizabeth Bryer writers with compassion and generosity." Tony Birch

"This strange and wonderful novel delights with its language games, but it also understands that such shenanigans are never just games. Words have an impact on how we understand reality. Words can damage humans of flesh and blood. In From Here On, Monsters, Bryer shows us how language is integral to our humanity."

"... a genuinely exciting debut from an Australian writer. This novel is playful, allegorical and formally ambitious, qualities that lend it a distinctly international flavour, in the way of Peter Carey's early work. And, like Carey's work, FROM HERE ON, MONSTERS has something urgent to say about contemporary Australia."

"More than a book of secrets, codes, hackers, geniuses, history and language. It is more than you could imagine." Tara June Winch