Momoko — Steven Carroll

Title: Momoko — Steven Carroll

Author: Steven Carroll

Publisher: McPhee Gribble / Penguin Books Australia

Format: Paperback

Edition: First edition, 1994

ISBN: 0869143190 / 9780869143193

Condition: Second-hand. Light shelf wear, minor marks to the cover, light spine and edge wear, and mild page tanning. Overall a clean, readable copy. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Momoko is a short literary novel set in post-war Tokyo, following a young Australian interpreter attached to the Allied occupation forces after World War II. Intellectual, inexperienced and far from home, Spin becomes involved with Momoko, a Western-educated Japanese woman, in a relationship shaped by desire, cultural misunderstanding, control and betrayal.

A compact novel of post-war displacement and self-deception, Momoko explores the uneasy emotional aftermath of war and the ways love can become tangled with conquest, projection and power.