{"product_id":"eye-of-the-needle-by-christopher-raja","title":"Eye of the Needle by Christopher Raja","description":"\u003cp\u003eEye of the Needle is a novel from Christopher Raja, an Indian-Australian writer who came to Melbourne as a boy and has long been based in the Northern Territory. It moves between two lives across more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1882 a young Afghan cameleer named Kadir lands at Port Augusta with six camels, hired to carry a scientific expedition into the centre of the continent. More than a hundred years later, Kris grows up in the suburbs of Melbourne, an Indian migrant like Raja himself, and after his father's mysterious death drifts to St Kilda looking for a bigger life, one that leads him through drugs, sex and love toward the story he is meant to write.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary novel about grief, desire and ambition, and about the cameleers who helped open up the Australian interior. Australian literary fiction for readers of Michelle de Kretser and Christos Tsiolkas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Raja","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50475641372909,"sku":"9781921758614","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8532\/4525\/files\/9781921758614.jpg?v=1786579076","url":"https:\/\/www.peninsularecordsandbooks.com\/products\/eye-of-the-needle-by-christopher-raja","provider":"Peninsula Records \u0026 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}