Too Many Men (novel)

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Too Many Men
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First edition
Author Lily Brett
Country Australia
Language English
Genre novel
Publisher Pan Macmillan, Australia
Publication date
1999
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages714
ISBN 0330361392
Preceded by Just Like That  
Followed by You Gotta Have Balls  

Too Many Men (1999) is a novel by Australian author Lily Brett. It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2000 for the Best Book from the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region. The novel was adapted into a feature film by the German director Julia von Heinz. Titled as Treasure , the film will be presented at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Special Gala section in February 2024. [1]

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Plot summary

Ruth Rothwax, a successful New York business-woman, takes her 80-year-old father Edek, a Holocaust survivor living in Melbourne, back to Poland, to revisit the land of his birth. They are also accompanied, unknown to Edek, by the ghost of the dead Nazi Rudolf Höss. The novel explores the two main characters' different responses to what they find.

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