Chasing Novak Fishing

<p>Sergei and Novak Karamazov are brothers who following their father's suicide in 1988 emigrate from the USSR to Brisbane to live with their Uncle Rog - gambler weed-farmer sole-shareholder of the Business of Death. Struggling to recover from the loss of his father twelve-year-old Novak runs away leaving their house burned to the ground.</p><p><br></p><p>Over the next decade Sergei and Rog traverse Australia on the trail of Novak from the pubs and racetracks of Sydney to the anarcho-vegan share-houses of Melbourne. On the way they are joined by Rags - Aboriginal on parole expert fisherman. Tracing the crevices of the Murray-Darling Basin they arrive at an outback vineyard deep in the Pilbara. </p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile Novak (under the guise of Jacky Siberia) wakes up in a guesthouse in Saigon. Plagued by strange dreams and memories recovering from a stab wound and addicted to heroin he gambles his life and that of his only friend - the Welshman - on one final cockfight. His rooster loses.</p><p><br></p><p>Chasing Novak Fishing is a literary road novel about suicide post-colonial guilt philosophy and fishing.</p><p><br></p><p>It is funny fast-paced provocative strange and like the colours on a marlin's dorsal fin dazzlingly original.</p>