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THE WONDER LOVER

Malcolm Knox

This is the story of John Wonder, a man with three families, each one kept secret from the other, each one containing two children, a boy and a girl, each called Adam and Evie. As he travels from family to family in different cities, he works as an Authenticator, verifying world records, confirming facts, setting things straight, while his own life is a teetering tower of breathtaking lies and betrayals.

The Wonder Lover is the extraordinary, dazzling new novel by Malcolm Knox, described by Christos Tsiolkas as 'one of the best novelists writing in the world today. That's not opinion, that's fact.' The Guardian famously wrote of Malcolm, 'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones', but this time around he's got the orchestra along as well and every single note rings deep and true. Told in first person plural and written in the style of a fable, but told to adults by children, The Wonder Lover is sophisticated, smart, funny and very moving. This is a stunning novel that again and spectacularly confirms Malcolm Knox as one of our brightest stars, an imaginative tour de force that ranks alongside the best work of Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis, David Ireland and Peter Carey. Malcolm Knox is the author of Summerland, A Private Man (published in the UK as Adult Book) Jamaica and The Life. Jamaica was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award and won the Colin Roderick Award, The Life was also shortlisted for the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Malcolm is also an award-winning journalist and author of many non-fiction titles including Boom, which won the 2014 Ashurst Business Literature Prize.

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Book Published 2015-04-01 by Allen & Unwin

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The Wonder Lover has just been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

Enjoy Knox's rich, poetic and imaginative word power as you follow the amazing life of John Wonder. Knox uses this daring, intense tale to pose some of life’s most complex questions – of love and loss, of betrayal and forgiveness.

...beautifully sustained narrative voice, which is marked by a kind of wounded wryness touched with compassion and even a quiet awe... an exquisitely wrought dissection of one man’s downfall and a reminder that of all the records and extremities Wonder encounters, the most revelatory is the damage human beings inflict on one another.

... a dazzling tour de force... a truly original story...

If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones.

Knox is one of the best novelists writing in the world today. That's not opinion, that's fact.

French: Asphalte

Knox has created a jewelled puzzle box in these pages... Think of Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest or John Banville’s The Infinities, works where formal experiment unfold into something more feeling, more implicated in the world.