Robbie Arnott

Dusk is a sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe. Robbie Arnott's prose is incandescent, his storytelling mythic and filled with a wisdom that extends beyond the page. With Dusk, he asserts himself as one of Australia's finest literary writers'

Starkly beautiful and deeply felt... Dusk is a book about love: not just the love between the twins but the love they feel for the landscape… the pared-back textures of Dusk’s prose… recall those of Cormac McCarthy

A Conrad-like storyteller whose tales always tremble on the edge of the mythic and legendary

Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark

One of Australia’s finest writers

Sisonke Msimang, author of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

'A sublime novel' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites 
 
An explosive novel of the wild, and the lengths humans will go to control it 
 
The distant highlands, covered in snow and strewn with ancient bones, are an alien home for a puma from South America. But when Dusk escapes her captors, reports of killing sprees of sheep and shepherds soon follow. 
 
The highlands are no less alien to twins Iris and Floyd, whose family history renders them outcasts. Out of work, money and friends, they hear of the significant bounty on Dusk’s head. They decide to join the hunt. 
 
As they journey up into the wild, haunted country, they discover there’s far more to the land and people than they imagined. Forced to make an uneasy alliance with a fellow tracker, the twins’ lifelong bond is put at risk. And as the trio close in on their prey, it becomes clear where the true danger lies . . . 
 
'Magnificent' TIM WINTON, author of Juice 
 
'Starkly beautiful and deeply felt ... the pared-back textures of Dusk’s prose occasionally recall those of Cormac McCarthy' Guardian (Australia)

Robbie Arnott

Praise for Dusk

Magnificent

Dusk is a sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe. Robbie Arnott's prose is incandescent, his storytelling mythic and filled with a ...

Starkly beautiful and deeply felt... Dusk is a book about love: not just the love between the twins but the love they feel for the landscape… the pared-back textures of Dusk’s pros ...

Magnificent

Dusk is a sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe. Robbie Arnott's prose is incandescent, his storytelling mythic and filled with a ...

Starkly beautiful and deeply felt... Dusk is a book about love: not just the love between the twins but the love they feel for the landscape… the pared-back textures of Dusk’s pros ...

Magnificent

Dusk is a sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe. Robbie Arnott's prose is incandescent, his storytelling mythic and filled with a ...

Starkly beautiful and deeply felt... Dusk is a book about love: not just the love between the twins but the love they feel for the landscape… the pared-back textures of Dusk’s pros ...

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