Amnesia (Carey novel)

Amnesia

Author	Peter Carey
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre	Literary
Publisher	Hamish Hamilton, Australia
Publication date	2014
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	384 pp
ISBN	9781926428604
Preceded by	The Chemistry of Tears

Amnesia is a 2014 novel by Australian author Peter Carey.

Plot summary

The novel follows the story of journalist Felix Moore who is writing an investigative piece about Gaby Baillieux, a young Australian computer hacker. Baillieux has written a computer virus which is originally intended to open the doors of Australian prison cells, but which also finds its way to the US.

The novel makes connections between various incidents in Australia's past (the 1942 Battle of Brisbane and the 1975 sacking of the Whitlam government) to build a picture of conspiracy and political interference.

Reviews

Andrew Motion in The Guardian^[1]
Ron Charles in The Washington Post^[2]

Awards

2015 shortlisted for the Indie Awards - Fiction
2013 longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal
2014 shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year

References

Works by Peter Carey

Novels	Bliss (1981) Illywhacker (1985) Oscar and Lucinda (1988) The Tax Inspector (1991) The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) Jack Maggs (1997) True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) My Life as a Fake (2003) Theft: A Love Story (2006) His Illegal Self (2008) Parrot and Olivier in America (2010) The Chemistry of Tears (2012) Amnesia (2014)

Short story collections	The Fat Man in History (1974) War Crimes (1979) The Fat Man in History and Other Stories (1980) Exotic Pleasures (1990) Collected Stories (1994)

Juvenile fiction	The Big Bazoohley (1995)

Non-fiction	A Letter to Our Son (1994) 30 Days in Sydney (2001) Letter from New York (2001) Wrong about Japan (2004)

Screenplays	Bliss (1985) Until the End of the World (1991)

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