Christopher Raja

Exploring topical issues of race, class, and migration, Into the Suburbs is an affecting portrait of one family's search for home. 'In Calcutta we were crammed in among crowds, traffic, and pollution. We had visions of breathing fresh, clean air and living in a classless society where everyone was your mate.' Christopher Raja was eleven years old when his father,...

A passionate story about the landscape of grief and the emergence of self by a distinctive new voice in Australian literary 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...

The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which led to widespread violence against India's Sikh population. The novel is told from the point of view of a young boy, Govinda, whose father is the headmaster of a local school. It begins with the intrusion into the schoolyard of an elephant that has...