'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all.'

Amnesia Road is a compelling literary examination of historic violence in rural areas of Australia and Spain. It is also an unashamed celebration of the beautiful landscapes where this violence has been carried out. Travelling and writing across two locations - the seldom-visited mulga plains of south-west Queensland and the backroads of rural Andalusia - award-winning Australian Hispanist Luke Stegemann uncovers neglected history and its many neglected victims, and asks what place such forgotten people have in contemporary debates around history, nationality, guilt and identity.

'This book will come to be regarded as a classic of Australian literature.' - Nicolas Rothwell

'Daring and original: an eloquent and moving meditation on place, memory and history.' - Mark McKenna

'Amnesia Road swept me away in lyrical storytelling, though veiled inside is a brutally complex shared history exposing the deliberate annihilation of the relationship between landscapes and their kin. Stegemann has lifted the dark shadowy veil of this denial, invisibility and silence to shift the direction of historical redemptive memory so the action of healing can begin.' - Brook Andrew

'Luke Stegemann explores with extraordinary tenderness and understanding the aftermaths of the frontier massacres in Australia and the atrocities of civil war Spain. He offers new insights about amnesia and the forgetting of the violent past and sets a roadmap to acknowledge and come to terms with the past. A brilliant achievement.' - Lyndall Ryan

'In this absorbing meditation on spectacular beauty and unfathomable cruelty, Luke Stegemann seamlessly joins his passionate love of two soils, Queensland in Australia and Andalusia in Spain. Amnesia Road displays that combination of warm empathy and cool appraisal essential in the best kind of history.' - Frank Bongiorno

'By turns beautiful and shocking, Stegemann's book reflects with a coolly objective, emotionally spare voice on the murderous pasts of Andalusia and south-west Queensland. Amnesia Road probes, with sharp intelligence, what history looks like when it can't be remembered and what it means to remember the otherwise forgotten dead.' - Francis O'Gorman, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh

在世界的两端，我发现对于如何阅读过去的故事，对于谁应该写或讲它，以及它的哪些部分应该被写或讲，都有困惑和深刻的分歧。

失忆之路》是对澳大利亚和西班牙农村地区历史性暴力事件的一次引人注目的文学考察。它也是对发生过这种暴力的美丽风景的毫无顾忌的庆祝。在两个地方旅行和写作--昆士兰西南部很少有人去的穆尔加平原和安达卢西亚农村的小路--获奖的澳大利亚西班牙裔作家Luke Stegemann发现了被忽视的历史和许多被忽视的受害者，并询问这些被遗忘的人在当代关于历史、国籍、内疚和身份的辩论中具有什么地位。

这本书将被视为澳大利亚文学的一个经典。- 尼古拉斯-罗斯韦尔

大胆而新颖：对地方、记忆和历史的雄辩和感动的沉思。- 马克-麦肯纳

失忆之路》在抒情的故事中把我吸引住了，虽然里面隐藏着一个残酷复杂的共同历史，暴露了风景和亲属之间关系的蓄意消灭。斯蒂格曼揭开了这种否认、隐匿和沉默的黑暗阴暗面纱，改变了历史救赎性记忆的方向，因此可以开始治疗行动。- 布鲁克-安德鲁

Luke Stegemann以非凡的温柔和理解力探索了澳大利亚边境大屠杀和西班牙内战暴行的后果。他提供了关于失忆症和遗忘暴力历史的新见解，并制定了一个承认和面对过去的路线图。这是一项杰出的成就。- 林德尔-莱恩

在这本关于壮观的美景和深不可测的残酷的沉思录中，Luke Stegemann将他对澳大利亚昆士兰和西班牙安达卢西亚这两块土地的热情完美地结合起来。失忆之路》展示了热情的同情和冷静的评估的结合，这在最好的历史中是必不可少的。- 弗兰克-邦乔诺

Stegemann的书既美丽又令人震惊，它以冷静客观、感情丰富的声音反映了安达卢西亚和昆士兰西南部的谋杀历史。失忆之路》以敏锐的智慧探究了当历史无法被记住时，它是什么样子的，以及记住那些原本被遗忘的死者意味着什么。- 爱丁堡大学Saintsbury英语文学教授Francis O'Gorman。