In the long hot afternoons of an Australian summer, Martin Linke makes stencils for his children, writes in his journal and dreams of freedom. "I'm not at war," he had protested when the internment order came. He had left Germany 17 years ago. But it is wartime, and he is an alien.
Martin waits. He keeps to himself. He is approached by camp factions, but he will not be drawn. If his next appeal is to succeed his record must be blameless. Soon he is an outcast among the internees.
'The Stencil Man' is a novel of uneasy alliances, treachery, and flight across the disturbing landscape of Australia in wartime.
