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Mr Takahashi and other falling secrets / Sandra Thibodeaux.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Currency playsPublisher: Strawberry Hills, NSW : Currency Press, 2017Description: 55 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1760620084
  • 9781760620080
Other title:
  • Mr Takahashi : and other falling secrets
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.4 23
Contents:
Introduction Katrina Fong Lim, Lord Mayor of Darwin -- Mr Takahashi and other falling secrets -- Act One -- Act Two -- Theatre Program as the end of the paytext.
Awards:
  • "Shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights' Award" ... front cover.
Summary: Darwin 1942 -- WWII: A town collapses under the threat of invasion as bombshells drop on Northern Australia. Mothers and daughters, sisters, friends and entire cultures are torn apart by the secrets that start to fall. Is Mr Takahashi to blame? Japan unleashes a wave of attacks on Northern Australia, and Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon ordinary people caught in the storm that was World War II. It tells the stories of Darwin's multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19. Japan also attacked Cairns and Townsville.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 822.4 THI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67861

"Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin" . front cover.

"Shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights' Award" . front cover.

In asssociation with Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, Darwin.

Introduction Katrina Fong Lim, Lord Mayor of Darwin -- Mr Takahashi and other falling secrets -- Act One -- Act Two -- Theatre Program as the end of the paytext.

Darwin 1942 -- WWII: A town collapses under the threat of invasion as bombshells drop on Northern Australia. Mothers and daughters, sisters, friends and entire cultures are torn apart by the secrets that start to fall. Is Mr Takahashi to blame? Japan unleashes a wave of attacks on Northern Australia, and Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon ordinary people caught in the storm that was World War II. It tells the stories of Darwin's multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19. Japan also attacked Cairns and Townsville.

"Shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights' Award" ... front cover.

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