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Shame and the Captives: A Novel
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Atria Books
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: 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 camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken ali ve in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, the Jap anese prisoners plan an outbreak with shattering and far-reaching consequen ces for all the citizens around them. In a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proven brilliant at exploring ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary events. With this profoundly gripping and thought-provoking novel, inspired by a notorious incident in New South Wales in 1944, he once again shows why he is celebrated as a writer who "looks into the heart of the human condition with a piercing intelligence that few can match" (Sunday Telegraph). Seller Inventory # RWARE0000049007
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Shame and the Captives
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # 007473
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Shame and the Captives
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Vintage Books, North Sydney
(2013)
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 0117385
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Shame and the Captives
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: 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 Gawell s camp, is assigned to work on their farm, Alice s view of the world and her self-knowledge are dramatically expanded. But what most challenges Alice and the town is the foreignness of the Japanese compound and its culture, entirely perplexing to the inmates captors. Driven by a desperate need to validate the funerals already held for them in Japan, the prisoners vote to take part in an outbreak, and the bloodshed and chaos this precipitates shatter the certainties and safeties of all who inhabit the region. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australian; ISBN/EAN: 9780857980991. Inventory No: 22090089. Seller Inventory # 22090089
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Shame And The Captives
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 378 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Seller Inventory # 209630
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