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by Goldie Goldbloom
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsSet in 1940s Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.
by Chang-rae Lee
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA stunning story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch, The Surrendered is elegant, suspenseful, and unforgettable: a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy and salvation.
by Biyi Bandele
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsTaut and immediate, at once somber and exhilarating, The King's Rifle is the first novel to depict the experiences of black African soldiers fighting in Asia in the Second World War.
First published in the UK as Burma Boy.
by Denis Johnson
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThis story of Skip Sands - spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel.
by Per Petterson
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsWe were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July.
by Tom Bissell
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsOpening with a gripping account of the chaotic and brutal last month of the war, The Father of All Things is Tom Bissells powerful reckoning with the Vietnam War and its impact on his father, his country, and Vietnam itself.
by Kiran Desai
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsIn a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace, then his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains causes their lives to descend into chaos, they too are forced to confront their colliding interests. Winner of the ...
by Tim Winton
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsSet in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, this is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music.
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