The Labyrinth / Amanda Lohrey
The Labyrinth / Amanda Lohrey
Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2021
Winner, Fiction, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2021
Winner, Voss Literary Prize, 2021
Shortlisted, The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards, 2021
Shortlisted, Age Book of the Year, 2021
Longlisted, ALS Gold Medal, 2021
Longlisted, Dublin Literary Award, Ireland, 2022
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.
There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it—to find a way out of her quandary—Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.
The Labyrinth is a hypnotic story of guilt and denial, of the fraught relationship between parents and children, that is also a meditation on how art can both be ruthlessly destructive and restore sanity. It shows Amanda Lohrey to be at the peak of her powers.
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Publisher: Text Publishing 2020 © Amanda Lohrey 2020
Cover image & design: Chong W. H
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