After darkness / Christine Piper.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Description: 297 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760113117 (paperback); 1760113115 (paperback)Subject(s): Physicians -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian -- Fiction | Promises -- Fiction | Japanese -- Australia -- FictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Awards: Winner of The 2014 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.Summary: It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men who are divided by culture and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long-held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences.
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Winner of The 2014 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.
It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men who are divided by culture and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long-held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences.
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