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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Year of Living Dangerously about Australian, Hobart, Tasmania with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: the author (19322013) was an acclaimed Australian novelist from Hobart, Tasmania. He is best known for The Year of Living Dangerously ,which was made into an award-winning film. He was twice awarded the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's top literary honor, for The Doubleman in 1985 and for Highways to a War in 1993.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Australian, Hobart, Tasmania with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: The Year of Living Dangerously (film): Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), a neophyte foreign correspondent for an Australian network, arrives in Jakarta on assignment.\nHe meets the close-knit members of the foreign correspondent community including journalists from the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand, diplomatic personnel, and a Chinese-Australian dwarf of high intelligence and moral seriousness, Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt).\nHamilton is initially unsuccessful because his predecessor, tired of life in Indonesia, had departed without introducing Hamilton to his contacts.\nHe receives limited sympathy from the journalist community, which competes for scraps of information from Sukarno\'s (Mike Emperio) government, the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), and the conservative Muslim military.\nHowever, Kwan takes a liking to Hamilton and arranges interviews for him with key political figures.\nKwan introduces Hamilton to Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a beautiful young assistant at the British embassy.\nKwan and Bryant are close friends, and he subtly manipulates her encounters with Hamilton.\nAfter resisting Hamilton because she\'s returning to the United Kingdom, Bryant falls in love with him.\nDiscovering that the Communist Chinese are arming the PKI, Bryant passes this information to Hamilton to save his life, but he wants to cover the Communist rebellion that will occur when the arms shipment reaches Jakarta.\nShocked, Kwan and Bryant withdraw their friendship from Hamilton, and he is left with the American journalist Pete Curtis (Michael Murphy), and his own assistant and driver Kumar (Bembol Roco), who is secretly PKI.\nKumar, however, remains loyal to Hamilton and tries to open his eyes to all that is going on.\nKwan, outraged by Sukarno\'s failure to meet the needs of most Indonesians, decides to hang a sign saying "Sukarno feed your people" from the Hotel Indonesia expressing his outrage but is thrown from the window by security men, and dies in Hamilton\'s arms.\nHis death is also witnessed by Jill.\nStill in search of "the big story", Hamilton visits the Presidential palace after the army generals have taken over and unleashed executions, after they learned of the Communist shipment.\nStruck down by an Army officer, Hamilton suffers a detached retina.\nResting alone in Kwan\'s bungalow, Hamilton recalls a passage from the Bhagavad Gita ("all is clouded by desire") which Billy told him.\nKumar visits him and tells him about the failed coup attempt.\nRisking permanent damage to his eye, a heavily bandaged Hamilton implores Kumar to drive him to the airport, where he boards the last plane out of Jakarta and is reunited with Bryant.