After Darkness (novel)
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| Author | Christine Piper |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | novel |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin, Australia |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | Australia |
Published in English | 22 April 2014 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781743319888 |
After Darkness (2014) is a novel by Australian author Christine Piper.[1] It won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2015.
The novel follows the story, told in three intertwined narrative strands, of Tomakazu Ibaraki, a Japanese doctor living in Australia around the time of World War II. The first strand deals with Ibaraki's arrival in a detainment camp in South Australia in 1942 after the outbreak of war; the second with Ibaraki's arrival in Broome in 1938 to work in a hospital there; and the third concerns his marriage in Tokyo in 1934.