ISBN |
9781743534281 (pbk.) |
1743534280 (pbk.) |
Name |
Anastasios, Andrew author, screenwriter. |
Title |
The water diviner / Andrew Anastasios, Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios ; based on the original screenplay by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight. |
Edition |
Film tie-in edition. |
Published |
Sydney, N.S.W. Pan Australia, 2014. |
Description |
348 pages ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover. |
Summary |
Constantinople, 1919, Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer, arrives in Turkey to fulfil a pledge made on his wife's grave - to find the bodies of their three sons, lost in battle in Gallipoli, and bring them home. In the enemy city Connor meets Orhan, a michievous Turkish boy, and his mother Ayshe, who is struggling to keep her family hotel afloat and rebuild her life after the war. Connor can trace life-giving water under the earth, but finding his sons at Gallopoli seems impossible when faced with the gruesome landscape of sun-bleached bones and rotting uniforms. But a Turkish officer gives the broken father hope where there was none - Connor's eldest son may still be alive. As Connor risks his life travelling into the heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: If his son is alive why hasn't he come home? |
Subjects |
Australian fiction |
Mothers and sons -- Fiction |
Farmers -- Fiction |
Australians -- Turkey -- Fiction |
Families -- Fiction |
Soldiers -- Fiction |
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction |
Genre |
Domestic fiction |
Other Names |
Wilson-Anastasios, Meaghan author. |
Knight, Andrew screenwriter. |
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