In this documentary, Tom Keneally re-traces the journey he made two years earlier, when researching the novel Towards Asmara. Keneally reveals a remarkable society of camouflaged schools and hospitals, factories hidden in deep caves, great food distribution dumps, and ravaged biblical towns. He encounters again the real people he turned into fictional characters in his book.
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Towards Asmara
London
Sydney
:
Hodder and Stoughton
,
1989
Z10647
1989
single work
novel
'In Towards Asmara thomas Keneally - who, to research this tale, visited Eritrea under the protection of the Eritrean rebels - memorably charts the experience of a group of travellers through the eyes of one of their number, Darcy, an australian lawyer turned journalist. His mission is to reveal to the world that the Ethiopians are gun-running under cover of western food-aid convoys. Like him, with a marriage back home that has broken down, each of his companions is experiencing a personal odyssey.' (Source: dustjacket, 1989 Hodder and Stoughton edition)
