num_pages: 351
description: "Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller."THE NEW YORK TIMESWinner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.
language: English
title: Tales Of The South Pacific
titlecomplete: Tales Of The South Pacific
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, American, Adventure, Short Stories, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 15732
places: Norfolk Island, Solomon Islands, South Pacific Ocean
awards: awardedAt: -694281600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam