The Golden Age

Author(s): Joan London

Fiction

It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs- love and desire, music, death, and poetry. It is a place where children must learn they're alone, even within their families.

Subtle, moving and remarkably lovely, The Golden Ageevokes a time past and a yearning for deep connection, from one of Australia's finest and most-loved novelists.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780143790266
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.18
  • : February 2018
  • : 1.9 X 17.2
  • : March 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 256
  • : 1803
  • : Paperback
  • : Joan London