The Lake novel Russell Soaba’s literary voice emerged

Russell Soaba’s literary voice emerged during the years surrounding Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975

A time of great flux – social

and a means with which to question the status quo

cultural knowledge

Highlighting an array of artists and their works

The Lake novel Russell Soaba’s literary voice emergedAs everyone knows, memory is a mystery, both tactile and ineffable. Quentin Spragues sustained reflection on his physical, historical, and emotional place in the world begins and ends in finely drawn locations but spirals out across time, geography, and feeling. Compressed, charged, and elegant, the questions are inexhaustible even as the setting casts its own particular spell. Hugh Raffles, author of The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost