Awards

• Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 1996
• Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 1996.

Overview

'A quite outstanding novel about the Indochina war, the best I have read since Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN.' Richard West, LITERARY REVIEW When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.

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A subtle unfolding of character and history camouflaged in battle-dress-an absorbing portrait of lives lived at the edges of terror and beauty. Koch is a powerful writer and this is a fine book -- Erica Wagner * The Times * A gripping tale, a convincing, page turning evocation of recent history, full of compelling characters, tumultuous events and just plain excitement -- Richard Bernstein * New York Times * Magnificent-in its humanity and honesty, and the maturity of its storytelling, it belongs with the finest products of that sad and wasteful history -- Michael Hulse * Spectator *

A subtle unfolding of character and history camouflaged in battle-dress-an absorbing portrait of lives lived at the edges of terror and beauty. Koch is a powerful writer and this is a fine book -- Erica Wagner * The Times * A gripping tale, a convincing, page turning evocation of recent history, full of compelling characters, tumultuous events and just plain excitement -- Richard Bernstein * New York Times * Magnificent-in its humanity and honesty, and the maturity of its storytelling, it belongs with the finest products of that sad and wasteful history -- Michael Hulse * Spectator *

Author Information

Christopher Koch is of Irish, English and German ancestry. For a good deal of his life he was a broadcasting producer, working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney. He has lived and worked in London and elsewhere overseas. He has been a full-time writer since 1972, winning international praise and a number of awards for his five previous novels - many of which are translated in a number of European countries. In 1995, Koch was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature.

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