Amnesia

by Peter Carey | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0571311229 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingLadyIndigowing of Orange, New South Wales Australia on 4/5/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingLadyIndigowing from Orange, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Known to himself as ‘Australia’s last surviving left wing journalist’ Felix Moore is comic, cowardly, idealistic, unreliable, and one of the great characters of modern literature. As this story starts he is sued for slander and found guilty. This is not the first time, but it seems it will be last. Finally he is unemployable.

Saved from shame and unemployment by his old mate, Woody Townes – a patron of left wing causes, property developer and millionaire with murky connections – he is commissioned to write the book that could save the life of a young female hacker facing extradition to the United States.

Did Gaby Bailleux, whose Angel Worm has infiltrated the Australian prison system, understand that she would be declaring cyber war on America? And how can the grey haired Felix gain access to his reluctant subject and understand her story? Known as Moore-or-less correct, for his somewhat unreliable grasp on reality, Felix believes he was born to write Gaby’s story.

Having gone to university with Gaby’s parents, Felix sees the daughter’s political beliefs through the lens of Australia’s special relationship with America spanning over forty years. Obsessed with the American backed coup of 1975, and even a little known “battle” during the second world war, Felix will eventually be guided by his subject to understand that this is her story and not his.

Two Time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey brings together the world of cyber hackers and radicals with the denied history of the United States, the CIA, and its relationship with its friend and client, Australia. Amnesia is Carey at his best, dark, funny, profound and unforgettable.

Journal Entry 2 by wingLadyIndigowing at Orange, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, April 5, 2017
my book group read this a few years ago - i'll have to refresh my notes and add them here

Journal Entry 3 by wingLadyIndigowing at Wishlist Surprise, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (4/5/2017 UTC) at Wishlist Surprise, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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ordered as a wishlist surprise for a special bookcrosser to be delivered by another special bookcrosser during the oslo convention

happy reading
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Journal Entry 4 by wingearthcaroleannewing at Falkirk, Scotland United Kingdom on Monday, April 10, 2017
Arrived today to be added to my suitcase for the Oslo convention.

Released 6 yrs ago (4/22/2017 UTC) at Bookcrossing Convention Oslo 2017 in St. Hanshaugen bydel, Oslo fylke Norway

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Taking to the 2017 convention.

Journal Entry 6 by wingApoloniaXwing at Oslo Sentrum, Oslo fylke Norway on Sunday, April 23, 2017
Thank you very much to both of you special bookcrossers!!!

Journal Entry 7 by wingApoloniaXwing at Lalitpur, Bagmati (incl. Kathmandu Valley) Nepal on Tuesday, September 19, 2017
A political novel about hacking, about environmental crime, corporate crime, geopolitics, about Australian history, the Australian left... all interwoven with the lives of a handful of people.
Nothing is narrated straightforward, we jump from person to person and the reader has to fit the pieces of a complex story together herself.
Intriguing.

Released 6 yrs ago (2/25/2018 UTC) at Café With No Name, Thamel in Kathmandu, Bagmati (incl. Kathmandu Valley) Nepal

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Released at the Café With No Name, my favourite coffee place in Kathmandu, it's on the bookshelf.
Happy reading!

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