Tyrant's Novel

In a detention camp where he is neither granted asylum nor readied to be sent back to his native land, a detainee bides his time. He insists on being called Alan Sheriff, a westernization of his given name; he was born in a country that had once been a friend to the United States but is now its enemy. Little else is known about Sheriff until a writer comes to interview him, and he embarks on the unraveling of events that have led to his current state - the basis of which forms a novel within a novel. In a work reminiscent of the classic Fahrenheit 451, Thomas Keneally has written a dazzling story of a man caught between the demands of his government and his impulse to run for his life. Book jacket.Keneally, Thomas is the author of 'Tyrant's Novel', published 2004 under ISBN 9781587247897 and ISBN 1587247895.