| Description |
348 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover. |
| Summary |
Constantinople, 1919, Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer, arrives in Turkey to fulfil a pledge made on his wife's grave - to find the bodies of their three sons, lost in battle in Gallipoli, and bring them home. In the enemy city Connor meets Orhan, a michievous Turkish boy, and his mother Ayshe, who is struggling to keep her family hotel afloat and rebuild her life after the war. Connor can trace life-giving water under the earth, but finding his sons at Gallopoli seems impossible when faced with the gruesome landscape of sun-bleached bones and rotting uniforms. But a Turkish officer gives the broken father hope where there was none - Connor's eldest son may still be alive. As Connor risks his life travelling into the heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: If his son is alive why hasn't he come home? |
| Subject |
Australian fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Farmers -- Fiction.
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Australians -- Turkey -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Soldiers -- Fiction.
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Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
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Turkey -- Istanbul.
(OCoLC)fst01204833
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Wilson-Anastasios, Meaghan, author.
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Knight, Andrew, screenwriter.
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| ISBN |
9781743534281 (pbk.) |
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1743534280 (pbk.) |
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1447295064 |
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9781447295068 |
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1447295072 |
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9781447295075 |
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