The Voyage

Author: Murray Bail

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781921922961
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  • : June 2012
  • : 206mm X 133mm
  • : Australia
  • : October 2012
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Description

Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna?


Perhaps he should have tried Berlin. But a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities for Delage - connections, her daughter Elisabeth, and an avant garde composer. Now travelling home, on a container ship, with Elisabeth, the real story is about to begin.


The Voyage is a masterly novel by a great writer at the peak of his powers.

Author description

Murray Bail's fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has won a number of major awards.