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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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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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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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Ratings: 3.53 From 1501 Users | 204 Reviews

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I picked this up initially because it is short listed for the Miles Franklin award and I was curious. I'm not really sure what to make of it and I don't think I really enjoyed it. Mostly it was a depressing read. I suppose it couldn't help but be that. Jovan and Suzana have fled war torn Bosnia after the death of their two children. In Australia as refugees they have menial lives, both working as cleaners, barely existing. Both had taught at the university in Sarajevo now it seemed their lives

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).

This is one of the most powerful books I've read. It's set in a framework which is somewhat exaggerated (at least I hope so) regarding horrific events in a suburban hospital in Melbourne. Although this part is a little over the top, it provides a structure for the more interesting, and wrenching, aspects of the book. The story of a couple who come to Australia escaping from Sarajevo, including their back story which is slowly revealed, and the unsettling aspects of trying to make a new life

This is a new Australian novel about a Serbian couple who have migrated after the Bosnian war. Jovan, former poet and academic now works as a cleaner at Sandringham hospital. Suzanah works as a carer. They are deeply damaged and dysfunctional as a result of the events of the war. The novel explores the extent to which people can recover from tragedy and what happens to relationships in the process. This focus plays out against a storyline where an anonymous graffiti artist is playing havoc

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

This is not an easy book to read. It is both distressing, and elliptical. It brushes past moments of trauma and you expect the big reveal, and then it turns away and heads in another direction. There are moments of lyrical beauty, there is horror, there are awkward, angry, shattered, just-trying-to-live characters. Nothing is simple. Nothing is heartwarming. Your effort will be repaid.

This is a really, really good book. The lone male on the Franklin Shortlist and I think, if anyone can better Charlotte Wood, Patric will be the one.Refugees from Saravejo, academics Jovan and Suzana, are now settled in bayside Melbourne, both working as cleaners (coincidentally Jovan in the hospital where I had my tonsils out as a child). As they try to rebuild their lives their past trauma is quietly revealed as they are both dealing with new challenges. Don't want to give anything away but