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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Turtle Beach
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'Two women, two worlds. Together they must risk everything

'Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith with her first major career success, but also with a personal disaster that she would like to forget.

'While on assignment Judith encounters Minou, the manipulative young French-Vietnamese wife of a high-ranking Australian diplomat. Minou is desperate to rescue her children from Saigon, who were left behind when she fled. Judith also begins a romance with the enigmatic Indian scholar Kanan. These new loyalties throw her headlong into dramatic personal and professional dilemmas. It is on the East Malaysian coast, where the giant turtles gather to lay their eggs, that the conflict reaches its tragic, brutal climax.'  (Publication summary)

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Turtle Beach Ann Turner , ( dir. Stephen Henry Wallace ) 1992 Australia Los Angeles : Roadshow Coote and Carroll New Regency Productions , 1992 Z460528 1992 single work film/TV

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at Turtle Beach, where the refugees try to land. Hobday's obsession with the beach is due to her secret hope that one day her own children will arrive there. Accompanying Hobday one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians, which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1981 .
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      Extent: 286p.
      ISBN: 0140057846
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Simon and Schuster ,
      1981 .
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      Extent: 286p.
      ISBN: 0671492411
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1991 .
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      Extent: 286p.
      ISBN: 0140148795 (pbk.)
Alternative title: La Plage Aux Tortues
Language: French

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  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

Inaccuracy and Distortion as Means of Positioning the Reader : A Study of Turtle Beach Texts J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 594-622)
Examines the book and the film Turtle Beach and their quasi-doumentary techniques in relation to historical accuracy and ethnic stereotypes.
Doing Cultural Pluralism in Australia, Against the Tide : An Interim Response to Our Reviewers J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Borderlands , vol. 3 no. 3 2004;
Ordinary Australian Orientalisms: Racialised and Gendered Approaches to the Turtle Beach Texts in Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia Goldie Osuri , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Borderlands , vol. 3 no. 3 2004;
The Metropolitan Gaze : Travellers, Bodies and Spaces Vera Mackie , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intersections , September no. 4 2000;
y separately published work icon Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia : Politics, Neo/Post-Colonialism, and Fact/Fiction J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , Malaysia : Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , 2000 Z1122071 2000 single work criticism

Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia 'considers contemporary and historical examples from Australian culture, literature, politics, media and society, contrasting Asian traditions and the experience of non-Anglo migrants in Australia. This is an account of the worldview underlying much of Anglo-Australian culture, of the difficulty it has had in understanding Asia and Asians, and in constructing a meaningful and durable relationship with Asian societies and cultures.' (Publisher's blurb)

A significant section of the book (p.199-269) focuses on Blanche D'Alpuget's Turtle Beach, a novel published in 1981 and set in Malaysia. D'Cruz and Steele examine the novel's theoretical, cultural and political framework, and deconstruct the manner in which the book positions the reader.

Aussie Still in Search of Self Lynne Strahan , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Helix , [Supplement to issue 9/10] 1981; 1980; (p. 28-35)

— Review of Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , 1981 single work novel ; Cherry Bloom Bruce Grant , 1980 single work novel
Australians Through Ethnic Looking Glasses Geoffrey Dutton , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 May vol. 101 no. 5263 1981; (p. 89)

— Review of Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , 1981 single work novel
Australians in Strange Places Jean Bedford , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The National Times , 1-7 March no. 526 1981; (p. 48)

— Review of Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , 1981 single work novel
Current Issues Explored for Timeless Themes Neil Jillett , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 March 1981; (p. 27)

— Review of Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , 1981 single work novel
Finding Their Range : Some Recent Australian Novels Peter Pierce , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 40 no. 4 1981; (p. 522-525)

— Review of Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , 1981 single work novel ; Bliss Peter Carey , 1981 single work novel ; Man of Letters : A Romance Glen Tomasetti , 1981 single work novel ; City of Women : A Novel David Ireland , 1981 single work novel ; Moonlite David Foster , 1981 single work novel ; Monkeys in the Dark Blanche d'Alpuget , 1980 single work novel
The Conflict between Two Differing Consciences : Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach Antonella Riem Natale , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literary Criterion , vol. 30 no. 1-2 1995; (p. 105-112)
y separately published work icon Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia : Politics, Neo/Post-Colonialism, and Fact/Fiction J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , Malaysia : Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , 2000 Z1122071 2000 single work criticism

Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia 'considers contemporary and historical examples from Australian culture, literature, politics, media and society, contrasting Asian traditions and the experience of non-Anglo migrants in Australia. This is an account of the worldview underlying much of Anglo-Australian culture, of the difficulty it has had in understanding Asia and Asians, and in constructing a meaningful and durable relationship with Asian societies and cultures.' (Publisher's blurb)

A significant section of the book (p.199-269) focuses on Blanche D'Alpuget's Turtle Beach, a novel published in 1981 and set in Malaysia. D'Cruz and Steele examine the novel's theoretical, cultural and political framework, and deconstruct the manner in which the book positions the reader.

Ordinary Australian Orientalisms: Racialised and Gendered Approaches to the Turtle Beach Texts in Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia Goldie Osuri , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Borderlands , vol. 3 no. 3 2004;
Doing Cultural Pluralism in Australia, Against the Tide : An Interim Response to Our Reviewers J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Borderlands , vol. 3 no. 3 2004;
Inaccuracy and Distortion as Means of Positioning the Reader : A Study of Turtle Beach Texts J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 594-622)
Examines the book and the film Turtle Beach and their quasi-doumentary techniques in relation to historical accuracy and ethnic stereotypes.
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