The Year of Living Dangerously (Signed Copy)

The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos. To an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan’s secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax.

Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2001
Book Condition: Very good softcover with some minor surface wear, creasing and edge wear to covers. Signed by the author on the bottom of the flyleaf. Minimal tanning to top edge of pages. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.