This is an auction for TRAITOR by Stephen Daisley.

This is a *** SIGNED *** copy of the book.

"What would make a soldier betray his country? In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital. Mahmoud is a Sufi. A whirling dervish, he says, of the Mevlevi order. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad for love, and of the saint who flew to paradise on a lion skin. You are God, we are all gods, Mahmoud tells David; and a bond grows between them. A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend. Stephen Daisley's astonishing debut novel is a story of war and of love - how each changes everything, forever."

Amazon.com review:

"I read this book when it was first published, and was reminded of it when I saw a TV programme that talked about “whirling”. It is a story about a naive young New Zealand man who went to fight at Gallipoli. After Gallipoli he helped an injured Muslim Turk to escape, an effort which resulted in their both being sent to camps in different theatres, and in his being charged with desertion. They never met again, but the influence of the Turk shaped his life ever after. This is a reflective story of a man at peace with himself and accepting of life as it unravels with only fleeting regrets. I found it extraordinarily satisfying."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen Daisley was born in 1955 and grew up in New Zealand. His first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. He lives in Western Australia.

Large format (trade) paperback 2010.

291 pages.

Very good condition.

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