- Title:
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Amnesia
- Written by:
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Peter Carey
- Read by:
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Colin Friels
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 38 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2014
- Available Date:
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November 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486240623
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Science Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestselling author
Amnesia is Carey at his best: funny, sweeping, intimate, exhilarating. It is a novel that speaks powerfully about our history but most urgently about our present.
How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's public enemy number one?
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, freeing hundreds of asylum seekers, she sets off a chain reaction. These prisons are run by US companies, and so the doors of some 5000 American institutions have also opened. And to some watching eyes, the secrets of both countries threaten to pour out.
Was this a mistake? Or has the elusive Gaby declared cyberwar on the US, as part of the longstanding covert conflict between the two countries that has as its most outrageous act the CIA-engineered coup of 1975 – a coup so brazen we immediately forgot it as part of our Great Amnesia.