Bibliograph

Shame and the captives, Thomas Keneally

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Shame and the captives, Thomas Keneally

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-586)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Shame and the captives

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

898161724

Responsibility statement

Thomas Keneally

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print basic

Summary

Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist 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 her husband's treatment. What she doesn't anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will expand her outlook and self-knowledge. But what most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their culture, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken alive in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, they plan an outbreak, to shattering and far-reaching effects on all the citizens around them. (Based on a true story.)

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