Lucky bastard
By: Peter Wells.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781869419431
Subjects: Prisoners of war -- Fiction.; War crimes -- Fiction.; Japan -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: How do you make sense of the past when it suddenly explodes into the present? In post-war Japan, Eric Keeling must investigate an alleged war crime, but do his actions constitute a further crime? In New Zealand, half a century later, this is the question that confronts his two children. They have grown up with a difficult father, who was traumatised by his past as a prisoner of war. Was he a war hero, or guilty of an unscrupulous act of revenge? As their father loses his hold on reality, they must sift through the facts and fictions of what really happened, and in the process they discover a new sense of family.
Notes: "A Vintage book"--T.p. verso.