Author encounter: Anna Krien - Act of Grace
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The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.
Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life.
In the Iraq of a decade earlier aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday triggering a perilous search for safety.
In Melbourne as the millennium turns Robbie faced with her father’s dementia and the family silences that may never find voice tests boundaries. And in the present day Gerry seeks toescape his father Toohey’s tyranny and heal its wounds.
This is a searing powerful and utterly original work by an exceptional Australian writer.
Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life.
In the Iraq of a decade earlier aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday triggering a perilous search for safety.
In Melbourne as the millennium turns Robbie faced with her father’s dementia and the family silences that may never find voice tests boundaries. And in the present day Gerry seeks toescape his father Toohey’s tyranny and heal its wounds.
This is a searing powerful and utterly original work by an exceptional Australian writer.
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