A.S. Patric is a bookseller in Melbourne, Australia. His short story collection Las Vegas for Vegans was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. His debut novel, Black Rock White City, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize. He was born in Zemun, Serbia, and emigrated to Australia as a child.
"Patric's suspenseful and harrowing debut brilliantly explores life
as a refugee in Melbourne, Australia... a heartbreaking yet hopeful
work about how trauma can erase identity and drive people to
reinvent themselves."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW "Paints a convincing snapshot
of emigre life, rendering its banal humiliations with pointed
weariness... Patric's prose is energetic and engaging... its
sensitive exploration of the innate human need to put down roots is
admirably ambitious and timely." --THE GUARDIAN
"Patric's images will remain indelibly and affectingly in readers'
minds."
--LIBRARYJOURNAL.COM
"A startling, stunning account of displacement that speaks not just
of and to those forced from their homelands, but also to any of us
who currently wonder what country it is we live in now."
--LITHUB
"Patric has certainly accomplished something notable... this marks
the emergence of a force to be reckoned with in Australian
literature."
--LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
"A fresh and powerful exploration of the immigrant experience and
Australian life, Black Rock White City explores the damages of war,
the constraints of choice, the possibility of redemptive love and
social isolation amid suburbia."
--Miles Franklin Literary Award citation
"Dark and devastating as it might be, Black Rock White City is an
unforgettable, poetic celebration of those who choose to carry on
no matter what war has wrought upon them, and those who refuse to
give up on love regardless of the cost. A.S. Patric is the
definition of a gifted writer."
--Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers "A disturbing, eerie
inquiry into the power of language, the price of exile and the cost
of survival. A.S. Patric's debut novel is haunting and haunted, but
above all, humane."
--Geraldine Brooks "Dark, confronting, but also intensely lyrical.
A powerful account of the compulsions and traumas that haunt the
suburbs of 21st century living."
--David Malouf
"A.S. Patric, one of Australia's finest writers, explores the
territories of culture, identity, and love with a surgeon's
precision and an artist's eye."
--Krys Lee, author of How I Became a North Korean "A bold, mature
and compassionate novel, and I couldn't put it down."
--Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap "Patric is a masterful
writer . . . I will carry this book on and on."
--Ashley Hay, THE AUSTRALIAN "Formally rigorous and emotionally
powerful, [Patric's] new novel can only add to his stature as one
of the most fascinating writers in this part of the world"
--SIDNEY MORNING HERALD
"A.S. Patric grabs his reader's attention... Patric gives an
astute, affecting portrayal of adapting to life in a new country,
navigating the shifting balance of grief and hope as his émigrés
learn what cannot be left behind and what can." --THE SPECTATOR
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