The Shoe-Horn Sonata - Misto, John
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1n 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp deep in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their 'uncommon bond'. Winner of the 1995 Australia Remembers National Play Competition and the 1996 Play Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
1n 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp deep in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their 'uncommon bond'. Winner of the 1995 Australia Remembers National Play Competition and the 1996 Play Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
Autorenporträt
JOHN MISTO is an Arts/Law graduate from the University of New South Wales. He has been a writer since 1981, after working as a solicitor. His play Harp on the Willow won the Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award for Best New Australian Play. The Shoe-Horn Sonata won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play and the Australia Remembers National Play Competition. For his work in television he has won three AFI Awards and three Australian Writers' Guild Awards. He also has written a crime fiction novel, The Devil's Companions.