Solitude, Friendship and the Vagaries of Life

The hero of Brian Castro’s 10th novel is in his mid-70s, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, now a writer living alone in the Adelaide Hills. His days are filled with reflections on his life and what he calls “the mannered and meditative inaction of age”. Castro discusses his new novel, Chinese Postman, with Molly Murn.

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Brian Castro is the author of 11 novels, including Birds Of Passage (1983), Double-Wolf (1991), After China (1992), Stepper (1997), Shanghai Dancing (2003) and The Garden Book (2006). In 2014 he received the Patrick White Award in recognition of his significant contribution to Australian literature. His latest book is Chinese Postman, a novel released by Giramondo in 2024.

Molly Murn is a South Australian poet, author and certified Iyengar yoga teacher. Her debut novel Heart of the Grass Tree (2019) was shortlisted for the Debut Fiction Indie Book Awards 2020 and the MUD literary Prize for best new fiction. She is now writing a second novel, Radiance. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Overland, Transnational Literature and Social Alternatives.

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