Little World
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Little World
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Narrated by:
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Josephine Rowe
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Josephine Rowe
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'He has no notion of how to care for a saint. Even a small one. Does not even believe. Still. Catholic or not. You don't turn away a saint.'
In the north-western corner of 1950s Australia, a saint arrives at the home of a retired engineer, who unwittingly becomes her custodian. A girl of indeterminate age, her body remains as it was when she died, incorruptible. And though no one knows it, she is conscious, reflecting on past and present.
Little World stretches across continents and eras – from the Canal Zone in Panama and the island of Nauru all the way to the onset of Covid in contemporary Victoria. Beautiful, rich and strange, it weaves a tale of interconnected fates as characters grapple with the unknowable, and in this way come face to face with their deepest needs.
2025, Queensland Literary Awards The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, Short-listed
©2025 Josephine Rowe (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing