The Year of Living Dangerously

Book — Indonesia through Their Eyes

The year is 1965. The fiercely nationalistic government of the god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the brink of chaos. Engulfed in the violence are Guy Hamilton, a Western journalist; Billy Kwan, his Chinese-Australian cameraman; and the young British woman they both love. Kwan’s disillusionment with his hero Sukarno leads him to desperate action, and a complex drama of loyalty and betrayal is played out in the eye of the political storm.

Author Christopher J. Koch

Format Mass Market Paperback, English
Page(s) 296
ISBN/ISBN13 0140065350/9780140065350
Published Date Mar 01, 1983
Publisher Penguin Books

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Genre(s) Nonfiction
Audiences Writing Indonesia

Historical

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