- FAW Christina Stead Award, 2005: joint winner[18]
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2006: winner
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2006: winner
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2006: shortlisted
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Community Relations Commission Award, 2006: winner
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2006: winner
- Nita Kibble Literary Award, 2006: shortlisted
- Booksellers Choice Award, 2006: winner[19]
- Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian Book of the Year, 2006: winner[20]
- Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year, 2006: winner[20]
- The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize, 2006: shortlisted
- Booker Prize, 2006: shortlisted
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2006: shortlisted
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2006: shortlisted
- Colin Roderick Award, 2005: shortlisted
- International Dublin Literary Award, 2007: longlisted
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