The Trout Opera - Hardcover

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Matthew Condon was born in Brisbane in 1962 and has lived in the UK, Germany and France. He is the author of several novels and short story collections, including The Motorcycle Cafe, A Night at the Pink Poodle, The Pillow Fight and Lime Bar. He is the recipient of two Steel Rudd awards for short fiction.

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A stunning epic that tells the story of the twentieth century through Australian eyes.

After several lifetimes of living anonymously in the outback, Wilfred Lampe is finally marked out for greatness in his hundredth year by the Sydney Olympic Committee who need an Australian everyman for their opening ceremony. On the verge of becoming a legend, Wilfred is in his paddock when a freak accident looks likely to rob him of his chance.

Helpless in his hospital bed, Wilfred discovers he has a great-niece, the wild and troubled Aurora. She has come to take him home, and together they embark on an unlikely roadtrip across Australia that changes both their lives.

Flamboyant, operatic, inescapably funny, The Trout Opera portrays a mad world of history, war, romance, murder, bushfires, drugs and the fragility and resilience of nature. Through the story of a man who has experienced the tumultuous reverberations of the world while never moving from his birthplace on the Snowy River, it asks, what is this relentless thing called life?