The Memory Room

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Memory Room
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Christopher Koch
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Espionage and spy thriller
ISBN/Barcode 9781741667394
ClassificationsDewey:A823.4
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House Australia
Imprint Vintage (Australia)
Publication Date 3 November 2008
Publication Country Australia

Description

This novel is essentially a psychological study of a spy, and an exploration of secrecy. It is also a study of the pathological condition known as folie a deux - the madness of two - in which two people share a common set of fantasies and delusions.

Author Biography

Christopher Koch was born and educated in Tasmania. For a good deal of his life he was a broadcasting producer, working for the ABC in Sydney. He has lived and worked in London and elsewhere overseas. He has been a fulltime writer since 1972, winning international praise and a number of awards for his novels, many of which are translated in a number of European countries. One of his novels, The YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, was made into a film by Peter Weir and was nominated for an Academy Award. He has twice won the Miles Franklin award for fiction: for THE DOUBLEMAN and HIGHWAYS TO A WAR. In 1995 Koch was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature. His most recent novel is THE MEMORY ROOM won the CAL Waverley Award for Literature in 2008.