The Year Of Living Dangerously (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; faded spine, no tears. Pages: light foxing on book block. Binding remains tight.
Set against the volatile backdrop of Indonesia in 1965, on the eve of the coup that would topple President Sukarno, The Year of Living Dangerously chronicles the dangerous entanglement of Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian journalist, and his enigmatic dwarf photographer, Billy Kwan, as they navigate a society on the brink of catastrophic upheaval. Koch presents a world of moral ambiguity, political intrigue, and desperate human connection, where the personal and the political collide with devastating consequences, and where the line between observer and participant dissolves under the heat of revolution. C.J. Koch constructs his narrative with the precision of a master storyteller, weaving Javanese shadow-puppet mythology — the *wayang* — into the very fabric of the plot, using it as a lens through which fate, illusion, and reality are examined with haunting clarity. The novel stands as one of Australia's most significant works of literary fiction, celebrated for its rich atmospheric tension, its morally complex characters, and its unflinching portrait of a nation in crisis. Koch's prose is both lyrical and urgent, leaving the reader to wonder: when the world around you is burning, can any man truly remain a bystander?
Author: C.J. Koch
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Nelson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; faded spine, no tears. Pages: light foxing on book block. Binding remains tight.
Set against the volatile backdrop of Indonesia in 1965, on the eve of the coup that would topple President Sukarno, The Year of Living Dangerously chronicles the dangerous entanglement of Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian journalist, and his enigmatic dwarf photographer, Billy Kwan, as they navigate a society on the brink of catastrophic upheaval. Koch presents a world of moral ambiguity, political intrigue, and desperate human connection, where the personal and the political collide with devastating consequences, and where the line between observer and participant dissolves under the heat of revolution. C.J. Koch constructs his narrative with the precision of a master storyteller, weaving Javanese shadow-puppet mythology — the *wayang* — into the very fabric of the plot, using it as a lens through which fate, illusion, and reality are examined with haunting clarity. The novel stands as one of Australia's most significant works of literary fiction, celebrated for its rich atmospheric tension, its morally complex characters, and its unflinching portrait of a nation in crisis. Koch's prose is both lyrical and urgent, leaving the reader to wonder: when the world around you is burning, can any man truly remain a bystander?