Join the free discussion of the book “A Long Way From Home” at The Bindery on Monday, March 12th from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm in San Francisco, California.

The two-time Booker Prize-winning author, Peter Carey, gives us a wildly cheerful, clever new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country as it does about three daring individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial.

About the book: “Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high-speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s, this is a world every American will recognize: black, white, who we are, how we got here, and what we did to each other along the way.”

A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey’s late-style masterpiece.

Peter Carey is an author of thirteen novels. The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award are the addition to his honors. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for more than twenty-five years.