What the light reveals
By: Mick McCoy
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780995409873
Subjects: Cold War; Social aspects; Fiction; Malicious accusation; Fathers and sons; Australian fiction; Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01754978
Description: Conrad is falsely accused of passing military secrets to the Russians. His life and that of his family is turned upside down by discrimination and fear. Unemployed, misrepresented by the media, betrayed by relatives and threatened by strangers, Conrad sees no choice but to uproot his family from their homeland to start a new life in Moscow. It is also the story of Ruby, and of her and Conrad's adopted son Alex, and biological son Peter, and of the tension and intrigue that confronts them and shapes their lives in two countries. Russia lives and breathes in McCoy's superb evocation of it, but Australia is never far away. As Peter says, 'Tell me again why we're still here?'