The Red Book
This colourful account of life in India is a joy… It’s finely wrought and expansive fiction that lingers.
— Herald
There is much rich material here… the story of Francoise’s love for Arkay, the monk… is written with intensity and powerful despair.
— The Guardian
Blessed with ambition and talent enough to realise it, The Red Book is a model of what a globalised imagination can do.
— Sunday Herald
[An] exploration of the human desire to shed past lives… Vivid, wise, ambitious and beautiful.
— The List
Francoise, an Australian photographer, travels to Bhopal in India, where twenty years earlier a gas leak killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, and Arkay, a Scottish traveller battling addiction, who has found solace in Buddhism. As a Testament to their time together Francoise assembles photographs from their lives into an album, the “Red Book”. The photographs tell their stories of love struggle and transformation – pointing to the people they have been and who they will become.
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