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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

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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