{"product_id":"max-alex-miller","title":"Max - Alex Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Miller, we feel ourselves to be in the presence of a great heart and a penetrating sensibility, and in the thrall of one of our nation's most beloved writers.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of History, ANU\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMax \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003etells of Alex Miller's search -- in turns fearful and elated -- for the elusive past of Max Blatt, a man he loves, who loved him and who taught him that he must write with love. Miller discovers that he is also searching for a defining part of himself, formed by his relation to Max Blatt, but whose significance will remain obscure until he finds Max, complete, in his history. With Max, Miller the novelist has written a wonderful work of non-fiction, as fine as the best of his novels. Always a truth-seeker, he has rendered himself vulnerable, unprotected by the liberties permitted to fiction. Max is perhaps his most moving book, a poignant expression of piety, true to his mentor's injunction to write with love.' Raimond Gaita, award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomulus, My Father\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI began to see that whatever I might write about Max, discover about him, piece together with those old shards of memory, it would be his influence on the friendships of the living that would frame his story in the present.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccording to your 1939 Gestapo file, you adopted the cover names Landau and Maxim. The name your mother and father gave you was Moses. We knew you as Max. You had worked in secret. From an early age you concealed yourself - like the grey box beetle in the final country of your exile, maturing on its journey out of sight beneath the bark of the tree.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou risked death every day. And when at last the struggle became hopeless, you escaped the hell and found a haven in China first, and then Australia, where you became one of those refugees who, in their final place of exile, chose not death but silence and obscurity.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlex Miller followed the faint trail of Max Blatt's early life for five years. Max's story unfolded, slowly at first, from the Melbourne Holocaust Centre's records then to Berlin's Federal Archives. From Berlin, Miller travelled to Max's old home town of Wroclaw in Poland. And finally in Israel with Max's niece, Liat Shoham, and her brother Yossi Blatt, at Liat's home in the moshav Shadmot Dvora in the Lower Galilee, the circle of friendship was closed and the mystery of Max's legendary silence was unmasked.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMax \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an astonishing and moving tribute to friendship, a meditation on memory itself, and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A wonderful book. It is a story that needs to be heard.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlex Miller is the award-winning author of twelve novels and a collection of essays and stories. His work is published internationally and widely in translation. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, in 1993 for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ancestor Game\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and in 2003 for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJourney to the Stone Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1993 for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Ancestor Game\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eConditions of Faith \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLovesong \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare both winners of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. In 2012, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutumn Laing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e received the Melbourne Prize for Literature for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoal Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2014. Alex's twelfth novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Passage of Love, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003epublished in 2017, is his most autobiographical work, a deeply moving masterpiece of the writer's early struggles and loves from the vantage of old age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAllen \u0026amp; Unwin Publishing 2020, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlease note these are stored off-site. They will post out within one week of your order being placed. 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