Call Me Marlowe

Set in both Prague and Melbourne, Call Me Marlowe captures a man's search for his motherland in the hope of making sense of his life. With a delicate touch, the novel embodies the nature of trauma - both personal and political - in people's lives. Harold Vank loves Marylou, a woman he met in South Korea, where she was working as a sex worker, but whom he has managed to bring to Melbourne. She is the one who calls Harold 'Marlowe'. Theirs is an uncommonly beautiful but tenuous intimacy. Harold fe