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Silent Parts by John Charalambous

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December 2006–January 2007, no. 287

Silent Parts by John Charalambous

UQP, $24.95 pb, 310 pp

Silent Parts by John Charalambous

by
December 2006–January 2007, no. 287

Australian novels about World War I are typically tales of youth sacrificed and innocence destroyed in foreign lands for the Commonwealth. A good example is David Malouf’s coming-of-age novella, Fly Away Peter (1981). Nation and character matured simultaneously in the necessary baptism of fire. From the outset, John Charalambous’s second novel, Silent Parts, proves itself to be atypical and complex, with a forty-something anti-hero caught up in the not-so-Great War.

Silent Parts

Silent Parts

by John Charalambous

UQP, $24.95 pb, 310 pp

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