To sing of war / Catherine McKinnon.
Material type: TextPublisher: Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, N.S.W.] : Fourth Estate Australia, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 454 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781460757994Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | First loves -- Fiction | Australians -- New Guinea -- Fiction | Atomic bomb -- Japan -- Hiroshima -- Fiction | Weapons -- Design and construction -- Fiction | Japan -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and keen to prove his worth as a man. Against the backdrop of a hard-fought jungle campaign, the two negotiate their troubled past. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, young physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, with Oppenheimer also juggling the competing demands of the American military and his clever wife, Kitty. Far away, on the sacred island of Miyajima, Hiroko Narushima helps her husband's grandmother run a ryokan, however, when one of her daughters encounters danger, Hiroko must act to ensure her family's safety. Each of these people yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them, shame shapes them, hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F MCK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 08/06/2024 | 31111090536465 |
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December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and keen to prove his worth as a man. Against the backdrop of a hard-fought jungle campaign, the two negotiate their troubled past. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, young physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, with Oppenheimer also juggling the competing demands of the American military and his clever wife, Kitty. Far away, on the sacred island of Miyajima, Hiroko Narushima helps her husband's grandmother run a ryokan, however, when one of her daughters encounters danger, Hiroko must act to ensure her family's safety. Each of these people yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them, shame shapes them, hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake.
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