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Original Title:	Black Rock White City
ISBN:	1921924837 (ISBN13: 9781921924835)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Miles Franklin Literary Award for Literary Fiction (2016)

Black Rock White City

A.S. Patric

Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 1501 Users | 204 Reviews

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Title	:	Black Rock White City
Author	:	A.S. Patric
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	April 2015 by Transit Lounge Australia
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. War. Contemporary

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Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love.

During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan’s cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cleaned away dislodge the poetry of the past. He and his wife Suzana were forced to flee Sarajevo and the death of their children.

Intensely human, yet majestic in its moral vision, Black Rock White City is an essential story of Australia’s suburbs now, of displacement and immediate threat, and the unexpected responses of two refugees as they try to reclaim their dreams. It is a breathtaking roar of energy that explores the immigrant experience with ferocity, beauty and humour.

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Im always really pleased when an author makes the leap from producing acclaimed short stories to writing a full length novel. (I know, I know, short stories are not a lesser form, but they are often part of the pathway to publishing novels and novels are what I like to read). A.S. Patrić is an edgy writer, and IMO the longer form of Black Rock White City allows that edginess to flourish in a way that his shorter works have hinted at. (See my reviews of Las Vegas for Vegans, and Bruno Kramzer).

Strange how little his body shows the evidence of his life.Jovan and Suzana have escaped the horrors of Sarajevo by seeking refuge in Australia. For them, life in Melbourne is nothing like their old lives in pre-war Sarajevo: once academics, they are now both cleaners. Jovan cleans at a bayside hospital in Melbourne and Suzana cleans houses. The death of their two children in Sarajevo causes them both, in different ways, great pain. During a hot Melbourne summer, Jovan finds his cleaning work

Outstanding, amazing, heart-wrenching, so true to life and with a tremendous punch at the end.Jovan and Suzana are Serbian refugees now living in Melbourne after the trauma of being in a refugee camp. Both were academics, now they work as cleaners, with Jovan working as a janitor at Sandringham Hospital. Struggling as a couple anyway, their world is rocked by the intervention of others. It is a story of tragedy and loss, of bewilderment in a strange land with strange people, and of the universal

WORTHY WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARDI am such a fussy reader, that 4 stars is very high praise for me. Stunning, is the word that seems to describe the experience of reading such a 'real' portrait of several damaged but resilient, souls.

A.S. Patrics Black Rock White City is set in Melbournes eastern suburbs in 1999 and tells a story not particularly common in Australian fiction that of European migrants setting up a new life for themselves in a foreign land. In this case those migrants are Yugoslavian refugees who fled the Bosnian War in the mid-1990s.The story largely revolves around married Serbian couple, Jovan and Suzan Brakochevich, whose two young children died in a UN refugee camp en route to Australia. Five years on

This was a truely frightening read about the Balkan war and the aftermath for the survivors on all sides of the conflict. Even as refugees who has found a new safe home the mental trauma persists. Patric explains this so well...Of course the box doesnt disappear. It will always be exactly where it was- in the centre of their lives. It is made of the thinnest sheets of porous material, the most fragile membrane, leaking without warning at any point.

I don't understand why this book won the Miles Franklin. I found it clumsy with sentences which needed to be read twice to find the gist, and I'm not talking about metaphorical meaning, simply syntax. It was not credible, at times it felt as though Patric was just cobbling together any and every observation he'd jotted down in his writer's notebook. Sorry, no lyricism to be found, an ugly book which I wanted to like but couldn't.