Closer to Stone

Simon Cleary

Closer to Stone
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Country
Australia
Published
22 February 2012
Pages
304
ISBN
9780702239229

Closer to Stone

Simon Cleary

See the dots, boy. Can you see them? They’re not even towns, most of them. They’re settlements, handfuls of human beings huddled together in the sand. Know this about your brother- he went out into that desert and he did not come back.

There has never been a deserter in Bas Adams’ family

from the Somme to Vietnam. So when his brother, Jack, is reported missing from his peacekeeping contingent in Western Sahara, Bas knows he must be found. Their father demands it.
From Queensland’s Lockyer Valley to the mountains of southern Algeria, Bas follows Jack’s trail deep into the Sahara Desert, and into a world apart.
Nothing could prepare him for what he finds.
Praise for The Comfort of Figs
‘A brave and impressive debut’ David Malouf
‘Assured and unsettling’ Canberra Times
‘A poignant tale’ Age

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