''The Prosperous Thief'' is a 2002 novel by

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n 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''''The Compulsive Reader'', "A Review of The Prosperous Thief by Andrea Goldsmith"
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Awards and nominations

* 2003 shortlisted

Miles Franklin Literary Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Properous Thief, The 2002 Australian novels