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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Towards Asmara
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'In Towards Asmara thomas Keneally - who, to research this tale, visited Eritrea under the protection of the Eritrean rebels - memorably charts the experience of a group of travellers through the eyes of one of their number, Darcy, an australian lawyer turned journalist. His mission is to reveal to the world that the Ethiopians are gun-running under cover of western food-aid convoys. Like him, with a marriage back home that has broken down, each of his companions is experiencing a personal odyssey.' (Source: dustjacket, 1989 Hodder and Stoughton edition)

Notes

  • Dedication: To my family who allowed me for a time to travel with the compassionate Eritrean Relief Association, and the brave Eritrean People's Liberation Front.
  • Discussion notes available.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sydney, New South Wales,: Hodder and Stoughton ,       1989 .
      Extent: 272p.
      Description: illus., map.
      Note/s:
      • Cover subtitle (dustjacket): Towards Asmara: An African Novel.
      • 'Author's Note' dated May 1989.
      ISBN: 9780340415177 (hbk), 0340415177 (hbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Warner Books ,       1989 .
      Alternative title: To Asmara
      Extent: 290 p., [1] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
      ISBN: 0446515426 (hbk)
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sceptre ,       1990 .
      Extent: 320p.
      Description: illus., map
      Reprinted: 2002
      ISBN: 0340528117 (pbk)
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Coronet ,       1990 .
      Extent: 272p.
      Description: illus., map
      ISBN: 0340537957 (pbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Warner Books ,       1990 .
      Alternative title: To Asmara
      Extent: 290 p., [1] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
      ISBN: 0446391719 (pbk)
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Related Works

form y separately published work icon God or Politics : Tom Keneally in Eritrea Thomas Keneally , ( dir. Don Featherstone ) 1990 Z865431 1990 single work film/TV

In this documentary, Tom Keneally re-traces the journey he made two years earlier, when researching the novel Towards Asmara. Keneally reveals a remarkable society of camouflaged schools and hospitals, factories hidden in deep caves, great food distribution dumps, and ravaged biblical towns. He encounters again the real people he turned into fictional characters in his book.

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Works about this Work

A National (Diasporic?) Living Treasure : Thomas Keneally Paul Sharrad , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 20-27) Although Thomas Keneally is firmly located as a national figure, his international literary career and his novels’ inspection of colonial exile, Aboriginal alienation, and movements of people throughout history reflect aspects of diasporic experience, while pushing the term itself into wider meaning of the transnational.
Words, Sticks and Stones : Keneally, Literature and Social Impact Paul Sharrad , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 28 no. 4 2013; (p. 90-105)
y separately published work icon Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction Peter Pierce , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z565009 1995 single work criticism The first comprehensive critical study of Keneally's work. It concentrates on his novels, but also covers plays and non-fiction, and analyses the academic reception of Keneally's work.
y separately published work icon Discussion Notes on Thomas Keneally's Towards Asmara Laurie Clancy , Melbourne : Council of Adult Education , 1994 14183353 1994 single work criticism
Back to Novelist's Own Country Richard Dowden , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 April 1993; (p. 11)
Another War Peter Pierce , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 October 1989; (p. 127-128)
— Review of Towards Asmara Thomas Keneally , 1989 single work novel
Can Literature End An Endless Conflict? Katharine England , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 October 1989; (p. 16)
— Review of Towards Asmara Thomas Keneally , 1989 single work novel
Deadly Serious, But He Can Play David English , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 14-15 October 1989; (p. 6)
— Review of Towards Asmara Thomas Keneally , 1989 single work novel
Fiction Grounded in the Harsh Reality of Ethiopia Merle Rubin , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Christian Science Monitor , 9 November 1989; (p. 13)
— Review of Towards Asmara Thomas Keneally , 1989 single work novel
Here is the News Vincent Smith , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , November 1989; (p. 43)
— Review of Towards Asmara Thomas Keneally , 1989 single work novel
What Makes a Terrorist Tick? Robert Hefner , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 March 1991; (p. 21)
Thomas Keneally's Nightmare of History Manly Johnson , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 3 no. 2 1989; (p. 101-104)
Back to Novelist's Own Country Richard Dowden , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 April 1993; (p. 11)
Keneally's Forgotten War Janet Hawley , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 29 April 1989; (p. 14-22)
Witness to a Secret War Liz Van Den Nieuwenhof , 1989 single work biography
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 10 October 1989; (p. 16)
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Last amended 17 Sep 2009 16:59:56
Subjects:
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    Eritrea,
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    North Africa, Africa,
  • c
    Ethiopia,
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    North Africa, Africa,
  • Africa,
Settings:
  • c
    Eritrea,
    c
    North Africa, Africa,
  • c
    Ethiopia,
    c
    North Africa, Africa,
  • 1980-1987
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