Miles Franklin Literary Award まいるず・ふらんくりん ぶんがくしょう
Edition 37 (1996)
Literary awardNovelAustralian literatureFiction
Winners
1 people
Christopher John Koch
Winner
Built around the disappearance of a war photographer, this novel follows memory and testimony across Cambodia. Personal experience and historical violence overlap until the reality of war emerges with unsettling clarity.
As the search for a missing friend continues, the shape of war slowly comes into view.
496 pages
war and memoryCambodiajournalismfriendship and loss