num_pages: 282
description: In the dark recesses of the lost property office, strange atrocities are being committed. A luxurious train thunders north carrying a clerk who must pay dearly for his indulgence. Roses betray the secret of an old man, and a young unemployed couple explore the mysteries of exotic pleasures.Bizarre, funny, and chilling the stories in this collection are all, in one way or another, about power - about those who wield it, those who want it, and those who recall only its dazzling exhilaration and degradation.
language: English
title: War crimes: Short stories
titlecomplete: War crimes: Short stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 76
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
publisher: University of Queensland Press