Highways To A War - Softcover
Christopher J Koch's account of the fictional life of war cameraman Mike Langford is a truly exceptional novel that justly deserved winning Australia's premier literary award, the Miles Franklin. The novel is narrated by Mike's childhood friend, Ray Barton, who travels to Bangkok in 1976 following Mike's disappearance inside Khmer Rouge-controlled Cambodia, with the realism of Ray's narration augmented by his use of the journal records of a number of Mike's friends and transcripts of tape recordings made by Mike himself.
'Highways to a War' will be best remembered for its well-researched realistic depictions of life in Phnom Penh, Saigon and war-torn rural Indo-china. In addition, Koch also successfully evokes rural life in a 1950s Tasmania that Mike dreamed of escaping, the sights and smells of Boat Quay in a newly independent Singapore, and the economic prosperity - and ubiquitous traffic jams - of Bangkok in the mid-1970s.
'Highways to a War' will be best remembered for its well-researched realistic depictions of life in Phnom Penh, Saigon and war-torn rural Indo-china. In addition, Koch also successfully evokes rural life in a 1950s Tasmania that Mike dreamed of escaping, the sights and smells of Boat Quay in a newly independent Singapore, and the economic prosperity - and ubiquitous traffic jams - of Bangkok in the mid-1970s.
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About the Author:
Christopher J. Koch (1932–2013) was an acclaimed Australian novelist from Hobart, Tasmania. He is best known for The Year of Living Dangerously, which was made into an award-winning film. He was twice awarded the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's top literary honor, for The Doubleman in 1985 and for Highways to a War in 1993.
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Australian war photographer Mike Langford has just disappeared inside Cambodia as this intriguing novel opens in 1976. That country has been closed to all foreigners since the Khmer Rouge takeover, however, so when Langford doesn't emerge the general presumption is that he has been killed or taken prisoner. When the narrator, a boyhood friend, receives Langford's diary-on-tape, spanning 1965-1975, it sets off a series of reminiscences that offer indelible insights into the mind and heart of a remarkable individual who would dare infiltrate Communist Kampuchea against all odds. Readers will be touched by Langford's experiences in Indonesia (the setting of Koch's 1979 novel, The Year of Living Dangerously), Vietnam, and Cambodia. Highly recommended.
Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0749394056
- ISBN 13 9780749394059
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