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Language
  
English

Published in English
  
2 August 2010

Pages
  
239

Author
  
Stephen Daisley

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Australia

3.9/5
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Publication date
  
2010

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2010

Page count
  
239

ISBN
  
9781921656491

Published in english
  
2 August 2010

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Publisher
  
Text Publishing, Australia

Traitor (2007) is a novel by New Zealand author Stephen Daisley. It won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in Australia in 2011 for Best Fiction.

Contents

Plot summary

Young New Zealand soldier David Monroe is fighting at Gallipoli in World War I when he meets a Turkish doctor, Mohammad. As they tend to a wounded soldier a bomb bursts nearby and both are sent to an army hospital on the island of Lemnos. The novel explores the growing friendship between the two men, and two cultures, as they recover from their wounds.

Reviews

  • James Bradley in The Australian noted: "At its best, Daisley's prose possesses a shimmering, allusive beauty reminiscent of John McGahern. Sequences such as the stunning description of the ageing David's journey out into a rainy morning to supervise the lambing lend the novel an almost sacred quality."

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
  • 2011 shortlisted Commonwealth Writer's Prize - South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
  • 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
  • 2011 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Award for New Writing
  • 2011 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction

    • References

    Traitor (novel) Wikipedia
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