After Darkness
Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 297 pp
Fiction
After Darkness by Christine Piper
by Laurie Steed •
Australia’s history is chequered at best. For every story of military heroism, there is one of discomfiting prejudice. So it is with Christine Piper’s After Darkness, which explores Australian history from the point of view of a Japanese doctor, Tomakazu Ibaraki, arrested as a national threat while in Broome, and sent to the Loveday internment camps in regional South Australia.
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