God Forgets About the Poor - SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS

‘A stand out amongst contemporary Australian literary fiction for its stylistic and structural ambition, God Forgets About the Poor is the novel Polites has been climbing to. It is moving, poetic, powerful - at once a folktale and a modern day lament. Christos Tsiolkas meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez.’ - Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and award winning author of Foreign Soil and The Hate Race

‘In God Forgets About the Poor, Polites has produced a masterpiece.’ - ArtsHub

‘a triumphant reclamation, written in prose clean as polished stones’ - The Saturday Paper

‘God Forgets About the Poor feels like a culmination; it’s the author’s most striking work yet.’ - The Guardian

‘an important literary achievement’ - The Conversation

‘God Forgets About the Poor is a reminder that e