Turtle Beach
by Blanche d'Alpuget
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140148795
- ISBN 13
- 9780140148794
- Seller
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About This Item
Penguin Books, Australia, 1981. First Australian Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Two women, two worlds. Together they must risk everythingJudith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith with her first major career success, but also with a personal disaster that she would like to forget.While on assignment Judith encounters Minou, the manipulative young French-Vietnamese wife of a high-ranking Australian diplomat. Minou is desperate to rescue her children from Saigon, who were left behind when she fled. Judith also begins a romance with the enigmatic Indian scholar Kanan. These new loyalties throw her headlong into dramatic personal and professional dilemmas. It is on the East Malaysian coast, where the giant turtles gather to lay their eggs, that the conflict reaches its tragic, brutal climax. 286 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0140148795. ISBN/EAN: 9780140148794. Inventory No: 237588. . 9780140148794
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- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 237588
- Title
- Turtle Beach
- Author
- Blanche d'Alpuget
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Australian Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140148795
- ISBN 13
- 9780140148794
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0140148795 EAN: 9780140148794 Blanche d'Alpuget Turtle Beach
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