From Genevieve Tucker of Reeling and Writhing: "I would like to nominate a book which won the Miles Franklin award for its author when it was published in 1996 (his second)--he is well known here, has had a film made of one of his other books, The Year of Living Dangerously, in my opinion not nearly as fine a book as his account of Australian, British and US photographers in Vietnam and Cambodia, Highways To A War. His name is Christopher Koch. He inclines to use flawed, sometimes annoying narrators--in Highways To A War the narrator is less prominent and the book is all the better for it. Very good indeed."
More about Christopher Koch
+ Koch's profile at the Australian Authors Website
+ Koch's entry at the Literary Encyclopedia
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