The Prosperous Thief
Book by Andrea Goldsmith
1865087564The Prosperous Thief is a 2002 novel by Australian novelist Andrea Goldsmith.
Plot summary
Alice Lewin has survived the Second World War and, as an adult, visits the Kindertransport archive where she learns of a possible relative. She travels to Australia in an attempt to meet Henry Lewin, but it is a meeting with unforeseen consequences.
Notes
- Dedication: for Dot
- Epigraph: 'Virtue and crime weigh the same, I've seen it: in a man who was both criminal and virtuous.' - Tadeusz Rozewicz
- Epigraph: 'We all live in a phantom dwelling.' - Basho
Reviews
- The Compulsive Reader[1]
Awards and nominations
- 2003 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
References
- ^ The Compulsive Reader, "A Review of The Prosperous Thief by Andrea Goldsmith"
