Shame and the Captives: A Novel

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Shame and the Captives: A Novel

â€œIf the legendary Schindlerâ€™s List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneallyâ€™s literary mastery, then [this novel] surely willâ€ (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the largest and bloodiest prison escape of World War II.

Alice is living on her father-in-lawâ€™s farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an 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 her husbandâ€™s treatment. What she doesnâ€™t anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will change the way she understands both herself and the wider world.

What most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their deeply held code of honor, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken alive in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, the Japanese prisoners plan an outbreak with shattering and far-reaching consequences 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 â€œlooks into the heart of the human condition with a piercing intelligence that few can matchâ€ (Sunday Telegraph).

Country	USA
Author	Thomas Keneally
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781476734668
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
NumberOfPages	385
PublicationDate	2015-02-24
Publisher	Atria Books
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Studio	Atria Books

Shame and the Captives: A Novel

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