In sublime prose, this gripping account follows Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II. An intimate and moving war story in the vein of All Quiet on the Western Front. Introduced by award-winning New Zealand author Lloyd Jones.
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"There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them.""Publishers Weekly"
The beauty of John Hepworth s The Long Green Shore is its utter simplicity, no flashes, no frills, no artsy attempts at innovation but, rather, the steady hand of a frighteningly skilled writercertainly one of the great Australian war novelsAustralians fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II constituted only a tiny corner of the worldwide cataclysm. Yet the characters in John Hepworth s novel take on symbolic magnitude of the entire destruction. Charles Larson, "Counterpunch""
-There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them.---Publishers Weekly
'The beauty of John Hepworth's The Long Green Shore is its utter simplicity, no flashes, no frills, no artsy attempts at innovation but, rather, the steady hand of a frighteningly skilled writer...certainly one of the great Australian war novels...Australians fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II constituted only a tiny corner of the worldwide cataclysm. Yet the characters in John Hepworth's novel take on symbolic magnitude of the entire destruction.'--Charles Larson, Counterpunch
"There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them."--Publishers Weekly
In sublime prose, this gripping account follows Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II. An intimate and moving war story in the vein ofAll Quiet on the Western Front. Introduced by award-winning New Zealand author Lloyd Jones.
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