One of Australia's most distinctive contemporary writers, Josephine Rowe returns with a novel that feels at once intimate and mythic.

Set largely on a remote island in the Pacific, Little World follows a group of lives drawn together by an incorruptible child preserved after death, a grieving caretaker, missionaries, scientists and wanderers, each circling questions of faith, colonial history, ecological ruin and the strange persistence of the sacred. The novel unfolds through fragments, shifting perspectives and accumulations of image, allowing its emotional force to emerge gradually.

Rowe's prose is precise, luminous and quietly uncanny, attentive equally to damaged landscapes and damaged bodies. The novel explores colonial extraction, disability, sanctity, environmental collapse and memory without reducing them to allegory, producing a work that is both intellectually rich and deeply affecting. For readers of Olga Tokarczuk, Jenny Erpenbeck, Daisy Hildyard or Claire-Louise Bennett

Black Inc. paperback. Good condition, with staining from spills on first few pages and only light handling wear to the covers.