Shame and the captives / Tom Keneally
- Bib ID:
- 7286169
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Keneally, Thomas, 1935-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
-
- North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2013
- 1 online resource (400 pages)
- ISBN:
-
- 0857981013 (EPUB : :)
- 9780857981011 (EPUB : :)
- Summary:
-
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.
- Notes:
-
- Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Audience: General.
- Vendor-supplied metadata
- Subject:
-
- Escapes -- Australia -- Cowra (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Escapes -- New South Wales -- Cowra -- Fiction
- Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Fiction
- Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Fiction
- Escapes
- Fiction - General
- History - Military - World War Ii
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Prisoners of war
- Second World War
- Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Cowra (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Australia
- Japan
- New South Wales -- Cowra
- Australian
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright © The Serpentine Publishing Company Pty Ltd.
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2013
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Feedback
Similar items
- Chi ru yu fu lu = Shame and the captives / [Ao] Tuomasi Kennili zhu ; Li Yao, Liu Yang yi
- Shame and the captives : a novel / Thomas Keneally
- Die like the carp! / Harry Gordon
- Battlefield / Alan Tucker
- Blankets on the wire : the Cowra breakout and its aftermath / Steven Bullard ; translated by Keiko Tamura = Tetsujōmō ni kakaru mōfu : Kaura horyo shūyōjo dassō jiken to sonogo / Sutību Burādo cho ; Tamura Keiko yaku