What would make a soldier betray his country? In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital. Mahmoud is a Sufi
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Previously published: 2010
℗♭ Stephen Daisley 2010
Winner of the 2011 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction