Purportedly the Australian master's final work, reflecting on the bittersweet nature of the literary life. Teju Cole, Ben Lerner and Lidija Haas are fans Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, self-lacerating `report' on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, `student of mental imagery', and devout believer in the luminescence of memory and of literature.