Olivier, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of hist...

Peter Carey, Australian writer and winner of two Booker Prizes (OSCAR AND LUCINDA and TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG), returns with a bawdy and wickedly plotted tale of a formerly famous painter, his enormous man-child brother, and t...