Steve Toltz Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Angus Mooney is not happy - he's been murdered, cut off in the prime of his life. He feels humiliated - he's never even believed in an afterlife. (How wrong he'd been). He's confused - death has provided more questions than answers. And he desperately misses his audacious and fiery wife, Gracie, who's expecting their first child. The only upside is that Angus has found a way to see what his murderer is up to, and how Gracie is faring. The downside: Gracie and his murderer are getting uncomfortably close, and a worldwide pandemic means the afterlife is about to get very crowded.

'A tour de force of sustained brilliance' Mail on Sunday Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and friendship. Aldo Benjamin may be the unluckiest soul in human history, but that isn't going to stop his friend Liam writing about him. For what more could an aspiring novelist want from his muse than a thousand get-rich-quick schemes, a life-long love affair, an eloquently named brothel, the most sexually confusing evening imaginable and a brief conversation with God? 'What a joy to surrender oneself to a writer of such prodigious talent.' Peter Carey 'Tremendous' Sunday Times

جزء از کل اولین رمان استیو تولتز، نویسنده‌ی استرالیایی است که در سال ۲۰۰۸ به انتشار رسید و همان سال نامزد دریافت جایزه‌ی بوکر شد. با وجود مدت‌زمان کوتاهی که از چاپش گذشته، اکنون به عنوان یکی از بزرگ‌ترین رمان‌های تاریخ استرالیا مطرح است. هیچ‌وقت نمی‌شنوید ورزشکاری در حادثه‌ای فجیع حس بویایی‌اش را از دست بدهد. اگر کائنات تصمیم بگیرد درسی دردناک به ما انسان‌ها بدهد، که البته این درس به هیچ درد زندگی آینده‌مان نخورد، مثل روز روشن است که ورزشکار باید پایش را از دست بدهد، فیلسوف عقلش، نقاش چشمش، آهنگساز گوشش و آشپز زبانش. درسِ من؟ من آزادی‌ام را از دست دادم... -از متن کتاب-

Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Guardian First Book Award 2008 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009.