Traitor |
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Author:
| Daisley, Stephen |
ISBN: | 978-1-921656-49-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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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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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 for love, and of the saint who flew to paradise on a lion skin. You are God, we are all gods, Mahmoud tells David; and a bond grows between them.
A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend.
Stephen Daisley's astonishing debut novel is a story of war and of love - how each changes everything, forever. Evoking horror and beauty and a profound sense of the possibility of transformation, Traitoris that rarest of things- a work of fiction that will transport the reader, heart and soul, into another realm.