Shame and the Captives Tapa blanda - 2013

US: Atria Books, 2015. Paperback. Good. If the legendary Schindler's List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneal ly's literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will" (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic t rue events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the lar gest and bloodiest prison escape of World War II. Alice is living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian co untry town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, a n Italian inmate at the prisoner-of-war camp down the road, is assigned to work on the farm, she hopes that being kind to him will somehow influence h er husband's treatment. What she doesn't anticipate is how dramatically Gia ncarlo will change the way she understands both herself and the wider world . What most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignn ess of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their deeply held code of hon or, which the… Leer más

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Vintage (Australia), 2013

Vintage, Australia, 2013. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 377 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage, Australia, 2013. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? In the spirit of The Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally s new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous world events. In Gawell, New South Wales, a prisoner-of-war camp to house European, Korean and Japanese captives is built close to a farming community. Alice is a young woman living a dull life with her father-in-law on his farm while her new husband first fights, then is taken prisoner, in Greece. When Giancarlo, an Italian POW and anarchist from… Leer más

Vintage Books, North Sydney, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Signed by Author. Where the Tale Comes from and acknowledgements. Photographic card cover with black and ochre coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Set in country Australia during World War II. It deals with a small farming community and the prisoner of war camp built within the vicinity and of the Japanese prisoners who plan an outbreak from the camp, thus, shattering all the certainties and safeties of the close-knit community. Gift inscription from the author on the title page. Minor creasing to the book corners and browning to the text block edges and light age toning of the internal text. This is the first Trade edition of the book. Size: Trade Paperback. 378, [8] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th Century; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0857980998. ISBN/EAN: 9780857980991. Inventory No: 0117385. . 9780857980991