''The World Repair Video Game'' (2015) is a novel by Australian author
David Ireland.
The novel was serialised in five parts then published as a limited edition hardback by
Island magazine and was shortlisted in the Fiction Category of the 2016
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
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s chief literary critic, Geordie Williamson wrote: "In ''The World Repair Video Game'', Ireland has written an impossible novel: one shriven entirely of the social. Yet in doing so he has revealed the illogic that underlies what we call economic rationalism. He has drawn our coming world in a clear and terrible light."
Nicolas Rothwell
Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for ''The Australian'' newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with several works of non-fiction to his name.
Background
Rothwell is the child of Czech and Australi ...
wrote in ''The Australian'' that ''The World Repair Video Game'' is "a precise, controlled exercise in horror writing and cryptic social commentary, elegantly written, unremittingly dark. The tale is simply done: we travel in the mind of a monologue-spinning, self-justifying serial killer, a man on a mission to cleanse the fallen world. As always when murder is in the air, the narrative has a disquieting drive, modulated by the serene clarity of Ireland’s prose."
"Miles Franklin winner David Ireland back with ''World Repair Video Game''"
by Nicolas Rothwell, ''The Australian'', 7 May 2016]
References
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Novels by David Ireland
2015 Australian novels
Novels set in New South Wales