Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms
$20.69
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2017
Summary
Finalist in the Queenland Literary Awards 2017 Longlisted in the Dublin Literary Awards 2017
A story about a love that transcends all boundaries, from one of Australia’s best loved authors.
5 AUGUST, 1944.
Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured, and some take their own lives rather than suffer the humiliation of ongoing defeat.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925184853 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925184854 |
| Author: | Anita Heiss |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 198mm x 130mm |
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About The Author
Anita Heiss
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of over 20 books, including non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.
Anita is also the Publisher at Large of Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster dedicated to cultivating First Nations talent. As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage. It premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival and was produced by Belvoir St for the Sydney Festival in 2024.
Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, which recounts the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Anita’s first children’s picture book, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain), also focuses on the Great Flood of Gundagai.
Anita released Dirrayawadha (Rise Up) in 2024, a book about the frontier war in Bathurst. Her most recent novel is The Paradise Pact.
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