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On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalypt, down to the last tree. Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1999 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999.
Born in Adelaide in 1941, Murray Bail now lives in Sydney. His fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has won a number of major awards.
Format: Book (Paperback)
ISBN13: 9781921351693
Published: August 2009
Number of pages: 272
Width: not specified
Height: not specified
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Text Publishing Co
Country: Australia
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