Troppo

Madelaine Dickie

Aug 2016 · Fremantle Press

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A clash of cultures simmers beneath the surface of a tropical paradise.

Indonesia, 2004. Penny, seeking escape and purpose, arrives in Batu Batur and takes a job at Shane's Sumatran Oasis, a surf resort run by an Aussie expat with a troubling reputation. As Penny navigates the complexities of Indonesian culture, she finds herself drawn into a sinister world of xenophobia and clashing values.

Shane's influence casts a long shadow, pulling Penny into a moral quagmire where the line between right and wrong blurs. Can she find her own path amidst the rising tensions, or will she become another casualty of a culture war she barely understands?

Troppo is a gripping literary novel for readers interested in contemporary fiction, cultural exploration, and the dark side of paradise. Explore themes of identity, exploitation, and the collision of cultures in this award-winning debut from Madelaine Dickie.

A clash of cultures simmers beneath the surface of a tropical paradise. Indonesia, 2004. Penny, seeking escape and purpose, arrives in Batu Batur and takes a job at Shane's Sumatran Oasis, a surf resort run by an Aussie expat with a troubling reputation. As Penny navigates the complexities of In...

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About the author

Madelaine Dickie has done all sorts of work to fuel a compulsion to write and an obsession with surfing. She's worked as a rollerblading and skateboarding instructor, tutored maths, repaired rugs, produced radio, got sacked from a cleaning job that involved ironing, and has worked with young people with disabilities. Most recently, she's been the media and communications officer for an Aboriginal organisation in the Kimberley, WA. This has meant the means for surf travel. Madelaine's scored empty right-hand point breaks in Mozambique, got crook with malaria in Indonesia, crashed a rental car en route to the surf in Spain and has been bewitched by welwitschia in Namibia. It's also meant the space to write. Madelaine's writing has appeared in numerous publications including GriffithREVIEW (2013), the American journal Creative Nonfiction (2012) and Hecate (2010). In 2011, she received a Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Award to move to West Java, Indonesia, and complete her first novel Troppo. In 2014, Troppo won the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award.

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