Awards and Nominations
- Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, 2000: winner
- Colin Roderick Award, Best Australian Book, 2000: winner
- Booksellers Choice Award, 2000: shortlisted
- Man Booker Prize (UK), 2001: winner
- The Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, 2001: joint winner
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2001: winner
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2001: winner
- The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize, 2001: winner
- The Age Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year, 2001: winner
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia Region, Best Book for the Region Award, 2001: winner
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, 2001: winner
- Miles Franklin Award, 2001: shortlisted
- One Book One Brisbane, 2002: winner
- Festival Awards for Literature (SA), The Premier's Award, 2002: winner
- Festival Awards for Literature (SA), Dymocks Booksellers National Fiction Award, 2002: inaugural winner
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2002: shortlisted
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France), 2003: winner
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