Now a major motion picture directed by and starring Russell Crowe.
When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime
water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's
dying wish--to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three
sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross,
and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still
be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of
Anatolia, one question haunts him: if Art is alive, why hasn't he come
home?
This is not a war novel, not even an anti-war novel. Instead, it focuses
on the battles that go on inside the hearts and minds of a small group
of Australians and Turks as they struggle to bury their dead and rebuild
their lives after the First World War. The story is based on first-hand
resources, diaries, and official records.
