Oscar and Lucinda

"You may also be interested in Carey’s earlier Booker Prize-winning novel, Oscar & Lucinda, a love story between a gambling seminarian and a genteel heiress, who meet on a ship bound for the Antipodes and end up attempting to transport a glass chapel through the Australian outback. It too was adapted for the screen , with Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in the starring roles."

"Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda. I love virtually everything Carey writes. The story is beautifully strange and tender, even though they are doomed. Carey provides some of the best evidence I know that it is possible to be both serious and funny."