The Gun Room

Georgina Harding

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
01 July 2017

Vietnam War fiction

The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else.

Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what he has seen in that village is more than he can bear, and he flees.

Jonathan drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there are different kinds of pictures to be taken: peacetime pictures of crowds and subways and cherry blossom. And pictures of a girl with whom he is no longer lost: innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and in the heat of the summer.

Yet even here in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a witness to other events buried far deeper in his past. The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war.

By: Georgina Harding
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 188g
ISBN: 9781408869819
ISBN 10: 1408869810
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. She lives on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.

Reviews for The Gun Room

Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Michael Ondaatje ... At once delicate and sweeping … A novel about the passage of time, the senselessness of war, and the need to find and preserve meaning, this is a richly satisfying read * Daily Mail on <i>Painter of Silence</i> * This is fiction of the most graceful kind ... a quiet storm of imagery and emotions * Independent on Sunday * Harding writes with exquisite restraint ... Her deceptively simple prose gives a startling beauty to the ordinary, and evokes great depth of suffering * Guardian * Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away -- Esther Freud