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Black Sun, Red Moon

Black Sun, Red Moon

Author(s): Rory Marron

Location(s): Java

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Mid 20th Century

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An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos that was Java in 1945-46. His writing, infused with imaginative speculation, is sweeping, poignant, passionate and unflinching.

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A very well told story around the events that unfold as the Japanese occupation of Java comes to its end and the Second World War draws to a close. This portrayal is even-handed in its treatment of the...

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