The Water Diviner
by Andrew Anastasios, Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
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When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish, to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: if Art is alive, why hasn't he show more come home? This is not a war novel, not even an anti-war novel. Instead it focuses on the battles that go on inside the hearts and minds of a small group of Australians and Turks as they struggle to bury their dead and rebuild their lives after the First World War. The story is based on first-hand resources, diaries and official records. show lessTags
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"Read" as an audio book on a road trip. Entertaining, but no classic. Weaves a little Turkish history into the Gallipoli story of Australian cannon fodder from World War One. I found out at the end that the novel is based on the screenplay from the movie, rather than the more common reverse. I haven't seen the movie, but will look forward to it.
this was a fantastic book i had no idea what was going to happen throughout the book so it was fantastic to read, now i just have to watch the movie .loved it .
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- Important places
- Turkey; Constantinople
- Important events
- World War I
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- English, Italian
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