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Fiction
by Anna Heyward
July–August 2012, no. 343

End of the Night Girl by Amy T. Matthews

Wakefield Press, $24.95 pb, 280 pp, 9781862549449

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End of the Night Girl, the first novel by Adelaide writer Amy T. Matthews, is a story about one of the most difficult tasks of writing and scholarship in the past sixty years: imagining the Shoah. In attempting this task, Matthews emulates writers such as W.G. Sebald, Thomas Keneally, Elfriede Jelinek, and Inga Clendinnen.

 


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End of the Night Girl by Amy T. Matthews

Wakefield Press, $24.95 pb, 280 pp, 9781862549449

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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