What would make a soldier betray his country? In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital. Mahmoud is a Sufi. A whirling dervish, he says, of the Mevlevi order. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad for love, and of the saint who flew to paradise on a lion skin. You are God, we are all gods, Mahmoud tells David; and a bond grows between them. A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend. Stephen Daisley's astonishing debut novel is a story of war and of love - how each changes everything, forever. Traitor is that rarest of things- a work of fiction that will transport the reader, heart and soul, into another realm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921758379
- 9781921758379
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 02-05-2011
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Text Publishing
- Country of origin:
- Australia
- Pages:
- 296
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x128x19mm
- Weight:
- 0.22kg
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