The Gun Room

The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young photographer takes the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear... He flees to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom - and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep in his past.

Product details

• Authors: Harding Georgina, Georgina Harding
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.04.2017
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781408869819
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-6981-9
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 20 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: Japan, Vietnam, FICTION / Historical / General, History, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, War, Tokyo, India, Orange Prize, Past, Spy Game, Vietnam War, Vietnam War fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, award winning author, Women's Prize, 1960s, Georgina Harding; Women's Prize; Orange Prize; Painter of Silence; The Spy Game; India; books about war; books about trauma; books about family; Vietnam War; historical fiction; history; past; japan; vietnam; tokyo; war; 1960s; american invasion; ora, books about family, books about trauma, books about war, american invasion, Painter of Silence, orange prize shortlisted, solitude of thomas cave, The Spy Game, gun room