A.S. Patric
Australian author best known for the Miles Franklin Award–winning novel Black Rock White City (2016). Born in the former Yugoslavia and raised in Australia, he has published novels and short story collections including Atlantic Black and Las Vegas for Vegans.
Books
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1. Black Rock White City
A Serbian couple who fled the Yugoslav wars attempts to rebuild their lives in Melbourne, where the husband, once a writer, now cleans a hospital plagued by cryptic graffiti and unsettling acts of vandalism. Drawn into the menace shadowing the wards, he confronts buried guilt and grief that fracture his marriage and sense of self. Through a tense blend of mystery and migrant experience, the story traces trauma, alienation, and the fragile possibility of renewal in a strange new city.