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By Christopher Raja
Australian Fiction
In 1882 a young Afghan named Kadir lands in Port Augusta. He has arrived with six camels to make his fortune and so becomes the transport for a scientific expedition into the red centre.
More than a century later a young man named Kris comes of age in the Melbourne suburbs, having emigrated from India with his family when he was just a boy.
Fate will lead Kris to drugs and sex and love. He will learn what it truly takes to write a novel about the visionary life: the tale of a cameleer who comes across the seas from Asia and is drawn into the dazzling heart of the continent.