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The Gun Room by Georgina Harding is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Gun Room about?

A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear, and he flees.He drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there are different kinds of photographs to be taken--pictures of crowds and subways and cherry blossoms. And innumerable pictures of Kumiko, the girl with whom he is no longer lost. But even here, in this alien city, his history catches up with him: the photograph and his responsibility in taking it, his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a witness to other events buried far deeper in his past. The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral and emotional complexities of the experience of war.

Who reads The Gun Room?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Georgina Harding
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781632864383
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.61 / 5 (59 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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