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Tom Keneally

Thomas (Tom) Keneally was born in Sydney in 1935. Of Irish descent, he trained for several years for the Catholic priesthood but did not take orders. He worked as a school teacher, clerk and drama teacher. In the mid-1960s Keneally embarked on an extraordinary career as a writer, with remarkable success in Australia and overseas. He has won many prestigious literary awards. He won the Booker Prize in 1982 and has won the Miles Franklin Award twice.

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Title:: Corporal Hitler's Pistol (MP3)
Written by:: Tom Keneally
Read by:: David Tredinnick
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 11 hours 8 minutes
MP3 size:: 491 MB
Published:: August 31 2021
Available Date:: August 31 2021
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781867556572
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; War Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia

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How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon involved in the death of an IRA turncoat in Kempsey NSW in 1933?

When an affluent Kempsey matron spots a young Aboriginal boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband, not only does she scream for divorce, attempt to take control of the child’s future and upend her comfortable life, but the whole town seems drawn into chaos. A hero of the First World War has a fit at the cinema and is taken to a psychiatric ward in Sydney, his Irish farmhand is murdered, and a gay piano-playing veteran, quietly a friend to many in town, is implicated. Corporal Hitler's Pistol speaks to the never-ending war that began with 'the war to end all wars'. Rural communities have always been a melting pot and many are happy to accept a diverse bunch … as long as they don’t overstep. Set in a town he knows very well, in this novel Tom Keneally tells a compelling story of the interactions and relationships between black and white Australians in early 20th-century Australia.