Night Letters

<p><strong>Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award</strong></p><p>Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature with Dante as his imagined guide he reflects on what it means to live a good life in the face of death.</p><p><strong>Praise for <em>Night Letters</em> by Robert Dessaix</strong></p><p>‘Dessaix writes with great elegance with passion compassion and sly wit. Literally a wonderful book.’ John Banville</p><p>‘An absolutely unique book: intelligent funny rich tender at the right moments a plum pudding of stories observations and discoveries.’ Alberto Manguel</p><p>‘<em>Night Letters</em> is exhilarating. The goads the teasing the question marks fired up into the atmosphere make any passive reading of it quite impossible.’ <em>The Sydney Morning Herald</em></p>