Border Districts is a 2017 novel by the Australian author Gerald Murnane.
[1] It was the winner of the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction.
[2] The novel's narrator has moved from a large city to a small rural town in the border country of Victoria and South Australia.
He intends to live out his days there and as he walks around the town he looks back over his life and the memories that persist, and examines the life he lives on the borderlands of life and death.
In Australian Book Review reviewer Beejay Silcox noted that Murnane's work "can seem bloodless and cerebral, overly complex and obscure", but fans of his work "are drawn in by Murnane's dispassionate contemplation, and his willingness to inhabit the borderlands between conjecture and reality, memory and imagination, writer and written, life and death, love-letter and elegy".