Book description
'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to
attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I
should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha
is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is
extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock
poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a
similar feel to it.
I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside
the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more
about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western
Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red
Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text
as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a
story to celebrate the life of a dog.' Louis de Bernieres
Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of
Captain
Corelli's Mandolin
. His most recent novels are
Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter
.
