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Black Water
- Author
- Louise Doughty
- Narrator
- Richard Burnip
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 2 June 2016
- Run Time
- 12 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up the mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him and that his life may now be in danger.
As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic past, and begins a passionate affair. Their exile makes Harper realise that exile comes in many forms - but can Rita and Harper save each other while they are putting each other very much at risk?
Moving between Indonesia, the Netherlands and California, from the 1960s to the 1990s, Black Water is set around the 1965 Indonesian massacres, one of the great untold tragedies of the twentieth century.
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Details
- Author
- Louise Doughty
- Narrator
- Richard Burnip
- Duration
- 12 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 June 2016
- ISBN
- 9780571340613
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Cold wars and proxy conflicts
Synopsis
Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up the mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him and that his life may now be in danger.As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic past, and begins a passionate affair. Their exile makes Harper realise that exile comes in many forms - but can Rita and Harper save each other while they are putting each other very much at risk? Moving between Indonesia, the Netherlands and California, from the 1960s to the 1990s, Black Water is set around the 1965 Indonesian massacres, one of the great untold tragedies of the twentieth century.
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