Dying in the First Person

Samueland Morgan are twin brothers separated by several oceans. Once, when they werechildren together, they shared not only a family and a childhood, but a secretimaginary world that had a language of its own: Nahum. But that was decadesago: before Morgan became a wanderer whose only contact with his brother wasstories, written in Nahum.

 When Morgan unexpectedly passes away in the Netherlands,the woman he was living with the mysterious Ana agrees to accompany his body,and his final Nahum story, home to Australia.

Whatshe carries home to Samuel  is not just amanuscript, but a startling revelation.

Ingorgeous and incisive prose,  Sulwayconjures  a haunting,  moving story of the  complex relationships and allegiances offamily life,  of silence and memory, andthe power of words and the imagination  totransform everything.

'Dreamlike and prophetic and true. Like thebest translators, Sulway pushes language to defy its limitations, to defy ourown.'  Kristina Olsson

Read this stunning review by Nike Sulway in The Saturday Paper