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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Concertinas
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Nine years after leaving Papua New Guinea, Chris Davage thinks he's finished with that country - its beauty, its turmoil and its people. Until he meets Timii, an ex-student, in a crowded Canberra shopping centre. Timii, now a young woman of strength and charm, is also that special kind of adventurer, prepared to risk her skin to test her conviction. Through Timii, Davage is drawn again to the country he once believed was 'home' and also into a quietly dangerous cause-that of the West Papuans, twenty years under Indonesian rule. Family, job, friendships, his whole settled life, lose their meaning in a tangle of conflicting emotions as Davage pursues a new ideal of freedom, justice...and difficult love. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).

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Works about this Work

The Fiction of Trevor Shearston: Australia and its Colony Paul Sharrad , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Literature , June vol. 1 no. 1 1990; (p. 25-34)
Pent-Up Passion in Another Land Sandra Hall , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 13-14 August 1988; (p. 15)

— Review of Concertinas Trevor Shearston , 1988 single work novel
Fine Cause Used to Feed an Ego Katharine England , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 August 1988; (p. 8)

— Review of Concertinas Trevor Shearston , 1988 single work novel
Concertinas Recovers a Personal Cause Amanda Lynch , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 July, 1988; (p. 29)
Fine Cause Used to Feed an Ego Katharine England , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 August 1988; (p. 8)

— Review of Concertinas Trevor Shearston , 1988 single work novel
Pent-Up Passion in Another Land Sandra Hall , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 13-14 August 1988; (p. 15)

— Review of Concertinas Trevor Shearston , 1988 single work novel
The Fiction of Trevor Shearston: Australia and its Colony Paul Sharrad , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Literature , June vol. 1 no. 1 1990; (p. 25-34)
Concertinas Recovers a Personal Cause Amanda Lynch , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 July, 1988; (p. 29)
Last amended 4 Oct 2007 13:36:31
Settings:
  • Coast,
  • c
    Papua New Guinea,
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    Pacific Region,
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    Indonesia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
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