The Year of Living Dangerously

Christopher J. Koch

Penguin Publishing Group, Mar 1, 1983 - Fiction - 288 pages

An intelligent, compelling tale of political turmoil in mid-twentieth-century Indonesia. "Well conceived and beautifully executed."—Larry McMurtry.

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Perhaps the best-known novel about Indonesia is “The Year of Living Dangerously” (1978), Christopher Koch’s story about a group of journalists in highly unstable Indonesia in 1965. Mr Koch has since ...

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Set in Indonesia just before, during and just after the ouster of Indonesian leader Sukarno by a coup, the novel is narrated by a journalist named Cookie, whose role here seems to be as a father ...

About the author

Christopher J. Koch (1932–2013) was an acclaimed Australian novelist from Hobart, Tasmania. He is best known for The Year of Living Dangerously, which was made into an award-winning film. He was twice awarded the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's top literary honor, for The Doubleman in 1985 and for Highways to a War in 1993.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Year of Living Dangerously
• Author: Christopher J. Koch
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1983
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: May 27, 2008
• ISBN: 0140065350, 9780140065350
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Political