Hand That Signed the Paper: New edition of the award winning novel by Helen Dale. - Softcover

Helen Dale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925642232 ISBN 13: 9781925642230

Publisher: Wilkinson Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

As war crimes prosecutions seize Australia, Fiona Kovalenko discovers that her own family is implicated in the darkest events of the twentieth century. This is their story. First published under an assumed identity, The Hand that Signed the Paper remains one of the most celebrated and controversial books in recent Australian literature. With a new introduction by the author, it continues to raise urgent questions about history, responsibility and truth.

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About the Author

Helen Dale is a Queenslander by birth and a Londoner by choice. She read law at Oxford (where she was at Brasenose) and has previously worked as a lawyer, political staffer, and advertising copywriter (among other things). She became the youngest winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award with her first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, leaving the country shortly after it caused a storm of controversy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilkinson Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925642232
• ISBN 13: 9781925642230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 140