Call Me Marlowe

With a delicate touch, Call Me Marlowe embodies the nature of trauma—both personal and political. Harold Vaněk loves Marylou, a woman he met in South Korea, where she was working as a sex worker, but whom he has managed to bring to Melbourne. She is the one who calls Harold ‘Marlowe’. Theirs is an uncommonly beautiful but tenuous intimacy. Harold feels his mistakes are urging him to leave Australia. In a wild gamble to retrieve all he has lost he disappears to Prague. What happens in ‘the City of a Hundred Spires’ is both remarkable and affecting. The people he meets there—Vacláv, Marie, Pete, and Petr—and the soul of the city itself provide answers and a ‘world’ that he desperately wants Marylou to be part of. But is it all too late?

Call Me Marlowe
Author: Catherine de Saint Phalle
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Rights held: World
Contact: Barry Scott or FionaHenderson
Website: www.transitlounge.com.au

Category: Think Australian Title Preview