Fly Away Peter
Much of Malouf's fiction has been concerned with sorting out what he has called "the matter of Australia." Being an Australian writer, he says, is both a challenge and a gift. It gives him the freedom - but also the responsibility - to write about a place which is still in the making, still in need of definition. The tension between "cultured" Europe and "natural" Australia is a recurrent theme of his work. Other prominent themes are the ecological interdependence of nature and humanity, the blurred boundary between history and fiction, and the "other history"; the history of those insignificant events which constitute "the major part of what happens each day in the life of the planet."
In Fly Away Peter, the tension is between Europe, an old, already-made world, that is sick unto death, and Australia, a new world, idyllic, alive, and yet to be fully formed. The birds alluded to in the title are migratory, and they have a knowledge of both hemispheres. It is clear......

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Title: Fly Away Peter
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