Birds of Passage

by Brian Castro

George Allen & Unwin, 1983 [First Edition], ISBN 0868611263, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, some edge dn shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, small chips to edges and some discolouration (see photographs)

"Birds of Passage is an unusual and exciting novel, written from a unique angle: that of a Westernised, Australian-Chinese mind on a collision course with the past Seamus O'Young (an Australian born Chinese) reconstructs his past through the eyes of his ancestor, Shan, who came to Australia in the 1880's.
In many ways, the experience of the two characters parallel each other, just as Shan struggles ashore in a strange land, and makes his way through the wilds to the Victorian goldfields, so Seamus's own life begins to change and his mind to be affected by the anguish of his forerunner, adrift in an alien and dangerous society."