The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.

[1] Writer Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, work together to understand the puzzle of Lang Tzu, an exiled Chinese artist from a wealthy family.

The novel explores the themes of cultural displacement, the role of the migrant in modern Australia and race relations.

In "The Australian Book Review" Sophie Masson stated: "Alex Miller’s third novel treads some complex and difficult territory, staking out the past, memory, and the creation of self.

We traverse the fear and chaos of the Victorian goldfields where transience, solitude and a desperate clinging to notions of what Australia could be help shape the destiny of Lang Tsu.