They include attractions as diverse as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (which includes Ayers Rock) in the arid red heart of Australia, and the temperate Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area.

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This somewhat forced moral structure is made up for by Ms de Loo's rich evocation of life in the Budapest ghetto and by her ability, in pared-down prose, to convey Kata's and Stefan's own confusions and anxieties.

ECONOMIST: Novels from the Netherlands