Shame and the captives
By: Thomas Keneally
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9781410476692
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Australian Prisoners and prisons; Escapes; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Large type books; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; History
Description: 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.).
Notes: "A novel."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-586).