Description
Awards
Runner up in the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
Praise
‘This novella is a feat of language – lyrical, intricate, sensory. A collision of raw power and manipulation with storytelling as art. Every piece wisely and deliberately placed.’ —Anna Spargo-Ryan
‘Cosgrove has braided a vibrant tapestry of a guru fallen from grace, as she delves into the final days of Osho, passing the mic from the guiltless to the guilty, from believer to sinner. This entangling web of voices throws up unexpected shadows and a slithery truth. A stirring portrayal by an astonishing storyteller who doesn’t settle for easy resolutions.’ —Joanne Fedler
‘Cosgrove’s deceptively slim book is in fact a tightly packed cornucopia of literary delights – careful character studies, dark intrigues, and stunning prose, all threaded through with a philosophical contemplation of how best to live our lives. Zorba The Buddha is an urgent, riveting work from an accomplished storyteller. A feat of a book!’ —Lee Kofman
‘Ambitious and richly imagined.’ —Angelo Loukakis
About the Author
KATERINA COSGROVE co-owned café-bookshops (Sappho Books, Gertrude & Alice) and taught at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she gained her BA (Honours) and Doctorate in Creative Arts (Australian Postgraduate Award). A novelist as well, Cosgrove authored The Glass Heart (HarperCollins), Bone Ash Sky (Hardie Grant); the latter of which was a finalist for the Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Of note among her other highly regarded short stories is Griffith Review Novella Prize winner, Intimate Distance. Cosgrove is published in domestic and overseas journals such as Al-Jazeera, SBS Voices, Island, Daily Life, The Big Issue and co-judged the Nib Award for Literature from 2014.
Publication Details
Published as part of the SW Smalls series, celebrating 10 years of Spineless Wonders.
