The Memory Room (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 aus ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Set against the shadowy backdrop of Cold War espionage and the haunted landscapes of Tasmania and Southeast Asia, The Memory Room is a literary thriller that chronicles the double life of Vincent Austin, a young Australian intelligence officer drawn into a world of secrets, surveillance, and moral compromise. Christopher Koch constructs a taut, atmospheric narrative that uncovers the psychological toll of deception, as Vincent becomes entangled in a dangerous web of loyalties that blurs the line between duty and betrayal. Written with the same richly evocative prose that distinguished Koch's celebrated The Year of Living Dangerously, the novel presents a deeply introspective portrait of a man whose professional detachment slowly erodes under the weight of memory and desire. The tone is brooding and elegiac, suffused with a sense of inevitability as past and present collide, illustrating how the machinery of state power can consume the individuals who serve it. A sophisticated and quietly devastating work, it stands as a compelling meditation on identity, complicity, and the personal cost of living in the shadows.
Author: Christopher Koch
Format: Hardback
Published: 2007, Knopf
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Set against the shadowy backdrop of Cold War espionage and the haunted landscapes of Tasmania and Southeast Asia, The Memory Room is a literary thriller that chronicles the double life of Vincent Austin, a young Australian intelligence officer drawn into a world of secrets, surveillance, and moral compromise. Christopher Koch constructs a taut, atmospheric narrative that uncovers the psychological toll of deception, as Vincent becomes entangled in a dangerous web of loyalties that blurs the line between duty and betrayal. Written with the same richly evocative prose that distinguished Koch's celebrated The Year of Living Dangerously, the novel presents a deeply introspective portrait of a man whose professional detachment slowly erodes under the weight of memory and desire. The tone is brooding and elegiac, suffused with a sense of inevitability as past and present collide, illustrating how the machinery of state power can consume the individuals who serve it. A sophisticated and quietly devastating work, it stands as a compelling meditation on identity, complicity, and the personal cost of living in the shadows.