Read excerpts, order and purchase books published by Freshwater Bay Press during the past seventy years.
Read excerpts, order and purchase books published by Freshwater Bay Press during the past seventy years.
When left-wing journalist Egon Kisch - the 'rampaging reporter' - was refused entry to Australia in 1934, the ban led to a fierce debate about immigration controls that remains relevant today.
In The Legal Labyrinth Nicholas Hasluck revisits the Kisch case and the steps he took in writing a novel about the affair. The diary he kept on a recent visit to Vietnam casts fresh light on Kisch's links to South East Asia.
A Kafkaesque quality pervades Kisch's misadventures 'down under'. This sets the scene for sharp reflections on law and literature, and the nature of the 'legal labyrinth'.