The Garden of Sorrows

By John Hughes and John Hughes

In this book, fourteen mesmerizing fables - and the etchings they inspired - draw us back to our origins in a garden of sorrow and exile, death and renewal, beauty and melancholy. John Hughes re-imagines a series of fables in which Australian animals take on human qualities, as thief and actor, warrior and poet, farmer and merchant. These are reverse fables - in the way that the Antipodes reverse Northern Hemisphere logic - that cast us back to the flux at the beginning of the world: inchoate nature, the world in a state of formation, the garden, and the inferno. Accompanied by artist Marco Luccio's darkly wry etchings, this collaboration between two artists is as unique as the stories it contains.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742585140
• ISBN13: 9781742585147
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 9.1"