The story of a search for Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for risk-taking who disappears inside Cambodia after its fall to the Khmer Rouge. First time in paperback.
Christopher J. Koch Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Christopher Koch est un romancier australien célébré dont les œuvres explorent les thèmes complexes de l'identité, de l'histoire et de la culture. Son écriture se caractérise par une prose riche et descriptive et une profonde perspicacité de la psyché humaine. Les récits de Koch s'inspirent souvent de sa vaste expérience dans le domaine de la radiodiffusion et de ses voyages, conférant à ses histoires une authenticité et une perspective mondiale. Ses contributions littéraires à la littérature australienne et mondiale sont significatives, ses livres trouvant un écho auprès des lecteurs par leur profondeur intellectuelle et émotionnelle.
Der Mitgänger
- 408pages
- 15 heures de lecture
The Year of Living Dangerously
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Jakarta, 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. the charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax. 'A profound and beautiful book' - Les Murray, the Sydney Morning Herald 'A richly and fully realised work of fiction, well conceived and beautifully executed.' - Larry McMurtry 'Intelligent, compassionate, flavoursome, convincing ... In Billy Kwan, Mr Koch has created one of the most memorable characters of recent fiction. this book is to be prized.' - the times Literary Supplement