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Australian Books

Anatomy of fiction

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

Peace Talks Tim Finch

Bloomsbury, pp.224, $24.95

By more than a mile the best book I have read during the pandemic is Tim Finch’s Peace Talks. It is more than that. Although one needs to be wary of superlatives, this could be the best novel written in English so far this century. If I had to describe it in one word I would say, ‘exact’.

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