The Prosperous Thief is a 2002 novel by Australian novelist Andrea Goldsmith.

Plot summary

Alice Lewin has survived the Second World War and, as an adult, visits the Kindertransport archive where she learns of a possible relative. She travels to Australia in an attempt to meet Henry Lewin, but it is a meeting with unforeseen consequences.

Notes

  • Dedication: for Dot
  • Epigraph: 'Virtue and crime weigh the same, I've seen it: in a man who was both criminal and virtuous.' - Tadeusz Rozewicz
  • Epigraph: 'We all live in a phantom dwelling.' - Basho

Reviews

  • The Compulsive Reader[1]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ The Compulsive Reader, "A Review of The Prosperous Thief by Andrea Goldsmith"
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prosperous_Thief
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