Matthew Turner

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matthewturner@clear.net.nz

Matthew Turner was born in Greytown and grew up in Christchurch. He was educated at the University of Canterbury, where he gained a BA (Hons) in Japanese, and at Nagoya University and Keio University in Japan. His debut novel, Sweden, is out now.

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Sweden

It's 1968. As war rages in Vietnam, a group of American deserters holed up in Japan plot their escape with help from local peace activists. Their destination: Sweden. Based on true events, Sweden takes readers on an exhilarating journey from the killing fields of Vietnam to a fogbound fishing port on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, with stops along the way at a hippie commune in Japan's subtropical south and a student-occupied university in Tokyo.