Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village; a young photographer takes the shot that might make his career.
The image, of a staring soldier amid mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear. He flees to Tokyo where he takes different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom – and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it, and other events buried deep in his past.
The Consequences of War
A couple of years ago, a publisher sent me a pre-publication copy of a novel by Georgina Harding. I’m so glad she did for otherwise I might never have come across the work of an outstanding writer,...
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