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Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab’s ‘post-novels’ have a bit of everything

Yumna Kassab’s new book, The Theory of Everything, is not a typical novel. It is, its blurb declares, “a fictional theory, a rant, a manifesto […] five mini-novels or else five post-novels”.

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The Theory of Everything by Yumna Kassab review – this kaleidoscopic experiment is a delight

With her fifth book, Kassab leans even further into her fragmented, polyphonic style, exploding the possibilities of what the novel can be and do

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‘Taut’, ‘extraordinary delight’, ‘absolutely bonkers’: the best Australian books out in March

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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‘Poetic’, ‘fearless’, ‘a creative triumph’: the best Australian books out in February

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Politica by Yumna Kassab review – the human cost of war

Set amid an unnamed conflict in the Middle East, Kassab’s third novel is told in fragments – a resonant choice when telling the stories of families splintered and lives cut short

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Miles Franklin 2023: a guide to the shortlist of Australia’s biggest literary prize

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Tuesday. Here’s your primer

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Queer disobedience and uncomfortable truths: your guide to the 2023 Miles Franklin shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist takes us from Sydney’s criminal underclass in the 1930s and the quiet waters of rural Tasmania in the 1940s to shopping for design objects in contemporary Japan.

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Miles Franklin award 2023: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

Five first-time nominees are among the six authors competing for $60,000 award for novels that ‘present Australian life in any of its phases’

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Tale of new Australia in Miles Franklin shortlist debut

First-time author Kgshak Akec has made the Miles Franklin shortlist with a "novel of national significance" grounded in her own experience as a new Australian.

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Colonial and nationalist myths are recast in Yumna Kassab's Australiana

Yumna Kassab’s Australiana: A Novel is mostly set in an unnamed regional town, likely Tamworth, in northern NSW and in other nearby locations like Barraba, Uralla and the Pilliga. It tells of the lives of ordinary people, their relationships with the land and homes in which they dwell, the objects…

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