I honestly didn't understand this book, there is the unreliable narrator that ties in with the main character being the con artist, and the motif of being in a cage/trapped is repeated throughout the book, the story it ties in with Australian history. I think all these threads are meant to tie together but I am struggling it link it all together. 

The first portion of book is so so slow and picks up after that but doesn't make up for the initial 200+ pages I endured. Some of the writing and words are lovely but this book was too much of a slog for me.

I suspect this book is too literary for my plebeian brain.