Tuvalu (novel)

Tuvalu is a 2006 novel by Australian author Andrew O'Connor. It won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under 35.

Tuvalu
First edition
AuthorAndrew O'Connor
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherAllen and Unwin, Australia
Publication date
2006
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages347 pp
ISBN1-74114-871-5
OCLC74946085
A823.4 22
LC ClassPR9619.4.O286 T88 2006

Plot introduction

The novel is set mostly in Tokyo and tells the story of a young Australian teacher of English, and his relationship with two women, Tilly, another Australian English teacher, and Mami, a Japanese hotel heiress. It is told in first-person.

Explanation of the novel's title

Tuvalu is a small Pacific island nation. It doesn't appear in the novel except as an idea. Tilly describes it to Noah as follows:

I guess for me Tuvalu's always done the trick. I've never been anywhere near it. I've never even studied it. For all I know it might well have sunk. But that one word's taken on a meaning all of its own. [...] Haven't you ever once looked into the future and pictured a different life for yourself, made it a destination in some abstract way? A place in which you are content and from which you never look forward, except maybe to hope for more of the same?[1]

Awards

Reviews
gollark: Graphs and groups and number theory and stuff.
gollark: It's not as if there's enough spare generators lying around to cover the output of all the non-spare generators.
gollark: You would probably need a lot of generators.
gollark: I don't think most people's main expenses are electricity/heating.
gollark: In this GPU market?

References
  1. O'Connor, Andrew (2006) Tuvalu, p. 245
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