In this collection of bite-sized short stories, award-winning WA writer Christopher Konrad explores the human condition with tenderness and creativity.
As the book’s title suggests, Konrad peers into the lives of other people, carefully imagining their histories and expertly plumbing the depths of colourful personalities hidden beneath the prosaic everyday environments in which he finds them. Konrad’s voice is empathetic and melancholic, allowing him to tap into the struggles of multiple identities while pinpointing universal human issues afflicting them all.
Love, loss, alienation, spirituality, society: these are the forces with which Konrad’s characters wrestle. Steadily crafted, The Voyeur offers a glimpse into the recesses of distinctly Australian lives and social conditions, while transcending the Australian experience to access a fundamentally human one.