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Authors: Gail Jones

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Acknowledgements

This novel was written during an âArtist's Fellowship' year, hosted by DAAD in Berlin, for which I'm enormously grateful. For advice, support and stimulating company I wish to thank Katharina Narbutovic, Laura Munoz-Alonso, Susanne Fladt-Bruno, Susanne Kalbanter, Lars Eckstein, Anja Schwartz, Mattias Fredrich-Auf der Horst, Helga Ramsey-Kurtz, Frances Calvert, MarÃa del Rosario Acosta, Chris Eagle, Janne Teller, Sarah Burnside, Beatrice Fassbender, Eliot Weinberger, Jennifer Wawrzinek, Heidi Kuhles, Bettina Fishcher, Susanne Becker, Walter Kaufmann, Hannah Boettcher and Gerrit Haas. Fellow DAAD writers, including Anjtje Krog, John Burnside, Pierre Char-NaudÃ©, Helon Habiba and Dorothea Rose Herliany, offered solidarity and fine conversation. Martin Chalmers generously imparted invaluable advice, and I mourn his passing. My very special gratitude extends to Esther Kinsky, Priya Basil and Doris and Christian D'Cruz-Grote, who each shared more than can ever be expressed here. Thanks too to my German publisher, Hanna MittelstÃ¤dt, and to her wonderful team, and to my translator, Conny LÃ¶sch; to Banff, and
especially to Dionne Brand for walks and timely ideas; and to dear friends who corresponded. I particularly thank Mireille Juchau for her thoughtful reflections on Berlin. I'm indebted to Professor Ivor Indyk for offering support at an awkward time; and to colleagues at the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. Thanks to Meredith Curnow and Catherine Hill, ever patient and professional, at Random House Australia. Kyra Giorgi and Robert Podbereski were immensely inspiring companions, last but not least.

This book is in memory of Margaret West, Martin Chalmers and Philippa Maddern.

Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections and the novels
Black Mirror
,
Sixty Lights
,
Dreams of Speaking
,
Sorry
and
Five Bells
. Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the
Age
Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award and the ASAL Gold Medal. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina. Her fiction has been translated into thirteen languages.

Also by Gail Jones

Black Mirror

Sixty Lights

Dreams of Speaking

Sorry

Five Bells

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A Guide to Berlin
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First published by Vintage in 2015

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