Stephen Daisley
Autor de Traitor
Sobre El Autor
Stephen Daisley was born in 1955 in New Zealand. He served in the New Zealand army for five years. He worked other jobs on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas construction sites, as a truck driver, and Bartender. He is the author of two books. Traitor won the 2011 New South Wales Premier's mostrar más Literary Awards, UTS Award for New Writing and the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction. Coming Rain was published in 2015 and won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Stephen Daisley
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1955
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- New Zealand (birth)
Australia (residence) - Lugares de residencia
- New Zealand
Western Australia, Australia - Ocupaciones
- soldier (NZ Army)
truck driver
bartender
farmer
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 84
- Popularidad
- #216,911
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 18
Archives New Zealand tells me that
The cover art, so thoughtfully chosen by W.H.Chong for Stephen Daisley's latest novel, A Better Place, illustrates what we hope would happen to a wounded comrade. Two soldiers, one supporting the other, as they make their way through the rubble to safety. The wounded not abandoned to his fate. But as with other examples of war art, it's idealised. It doesn't show both the wounding and the rescue taking place in the bloody heat of battle. It doesn't show the terror on the faces of vulnerable unarmed men under fire. It doesn't show that it took courage for a man to risk his own life to rescue another. It doesn't show that the battle is ongoing. Rather, there is hopeful blue sky ahead...
Stephen Daisley's A Better Place spares the reader none of it.
It tells the story of twin brothers from a hardscrabble farm in New Zealand, who, despite the best efforts of command, went forward into action together. Command had a policy of keeping brothers separate, because they did not want the worst of news to be compounded when a distraught mother received the fateful telegram. They were not to know that the mother of these brothers was not at home on the farm to get such news. She had abandoned the family because she could not cope with a husband so damaged by WW1.
The back cover blurb and the opening chapter tells us one of the twins did not come home.
The back story follows, depicting the ruthless brutality of war against soldiers and civilians.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/08/01/a-better-place-2023-by-stephen-daisley/… (más)