4 December 2006
Tuvalu by Andrew O'Connor
Tuvalu tells the story of Noah Tuttle, who is aimlessly living a half kind of life in a cheap, run-down hostel on the seamier margins of Tokyo, a place overrun with feral cats and cockroaches. He teaches mediocre English to uninterested students, sleeps with his girlfriend Tilly when she's around, drinks beer when he can afford it, and generally avoids other people and their expectations. Nothing much happens to him – until, that is, he meets the wealthy, captivating and completely absorbed Mami Kaketa, a supremely selfish creature who leaves people like so much litter in her wake. She is so brazen and capricious she should come with a health warning.
Tuvalu was the winner of the 2005 Australian/Vogel Literary Award, and is published by Allen and Unwin.
Reader: Garth Holcombe
Abridged by Gail MacCallum
Sound engineer - Phillip Ulman
Produced and directed by Anne Wynter
Producer
Anne Wynter
