Book description
'an outstanding piece of writing...a powerful novel...'
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Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our
friends don't, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our
friends or are ourselves betrayed…
In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a
young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling
master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese diver. Can their love survive
as Japan enters the War and Mitsy encounters prejudice and hate?
In this beautifully written novel, Garry Disher evokes a war-devastated
Australia and its effects on young adults forced to leave their
childhood behind. Garry Disher grew up on a wheat and wool farm in
South Australia. He has an MA in Australian History and has lived,
worked and travelled in England, Italy, Israel and southern Africa. In
1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford
University, where he wrote his first collection of short stories. Garry
worked as a writing lecturer between the years 1980 and 1988, before
becoming a full-time writer. His publications include short stories,
literary novels, crime thrillers, anthologies and award-winning
children's titles.
