Lily Brett

Lily Brett has just completed a successful tour to promote her new novel. Read what the Philadelphia Inquirer said about the book in its article "A Feast of Culinary Novels".
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Too Many Men (1997)

Winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize Award in 2000 for the Best Book from the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region.

“Amazingly funny … a masterpiece”
Weekend Australian

“Seldom has someone written so true and caring a story.”
Der Spiegel

“Brett’s high wire act spanning the tragedy of the past and the comedy of everyday events qualifies as true art. Her book is probably the most significant and most heart-wrenching ever to have been written on the subject. In Australia, her former home, she’s been nominated for an Oscar. The Nobel Prize would be more appropriate.”
News, Austria

"At once haunting, riotously funny and deeply touching."
Publishers Weekly (*starred* and boxed review)

"Funny…powerful…chilling."
O magazine

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From the award-winning author of "Just Like That" and the acclaimed essay collection "In Full View" comes a funny and moving novel about family, memory and Mercedes cars.
Ruth Rothwax, a successful woman with her own business, Rothwax Correspondence, can find order and meaning in writing words for other people -- condolence letters, thank-you letters, even you-were-great-in-bed letters. But as the daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor with a somewhat idiosyncratic approach to the English language, Ruth can find no words to understand the loss of her family experienced during World War II.
Ruth is obsessed with the idea of returning to Poland with her father, but she doesn't quite understand why she feels this so intensely. To make sense of her family's past, yes. To visit the places where her beloved mother and father lived and almost died, certainly. But she knows there's more to this trip. By facing Poland, and the past, she can finally confront her own future.

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