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Traitor

Traitor( )
Author: Daisley, Stephen
ISBN:978-1-921656-49-1
Publication Date:Aug 2010
Publisher:Text Publishing Company
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $32.95
Book Description:

What would make a soldier betray his country?

In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital.

Mahmoud is a Sufi. A whirling dervish, he says, of the Mevlevi order. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.5 x 23 x 2.3 cm
Book Weight:0.395 Kilograms
Author Biography
Daisley, Stephen (Author)
Stephen Daisley was born in 1955 in New Zealand. He served in the New Zealand army for five years. He worked other jobs on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas construction sites, as a truck driver, and Bartender. He is the author of two books. Traitor won the 2011 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, UTS Award for New Writing and the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction. Coming Rain was published in 2015 and won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 2016.

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