Turtle Beach

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ISBN 10: 0140148795 / ISBN 13: 9780140148794

Editore: Penguin Books, Australia, 1981

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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.

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• Titolo: Turtle Beach
• Editore: Penguin Books, Australia
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140148795
• ISBN 13: 9780140148794
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Edizione: First Australian Edition.
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Fiction

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Judith goes to Malaysia to report on an international refugee crisis. Through her encounters with Minou, French-Vietnamese wife of a diplomat, she is drawn into dangerous personal and political situations. It is on the coast, when turtles gather to breed, that the drama reaches its tragic climax.