My Beautiful Enemy

Arthur Wheeler serves as a guard at an internment camp for enemy aliens in Victoria during the Second World War, and there he becomes infatuated with a young Japanese man. When his lover is to be deported to a Japan in ruins, Arthur walks out on his wife and infant son on a rescue mission that seems doomed. What follows is the secret life of a man in uniform who cannot accept what he desires, set against the racial prejudice that holds a fading British Empire together. Forty years later Arthur still cannot let go of what happened, and he plans to see his former lover one last time, wanting finally to make peace with the past.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

War, Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, Second World War

First published

2013

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9781922079893 (Text Publishing, Australia)