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Act of Grace

Product Number: D6538
Released: 01 Nov, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528885263
Narrator(s): Zoe Carides
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

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 to escape his father Toohey’s tyranny and heal its wounds. These characters' worlds intertwine across time and place, in a brilliant story of fear and sacrifice, trauma and survival, and what people will do to outrun the shadows. A searing, powerful and utterly original work by an exceptional Australian writer. It will leave you changed. “Act of Grace is a work of stunning virtuosity. Krien has taken a huge leap of creative faith, and from the very first page to the last I was ready to follow her anywhere.” CERIDWEN DOVEY, of In the Garden of the Fugitives

Author(s): Anna Krien
Original Publish Date: 01 Nov, 2019

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