True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey, which won the Booker Prize in 2001. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger in 19th-century Australia, known for a series of robberies and police confrontations in the late 1870s. Some viewed Kelly as a symbol of resistance for the working class against landowners during a difficult economic period. The story culminates in the siege of Glenrowan, where Kelly was captured and later hanged in Melbourne.12