Shame and the Captives
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Shame and the Captives: A Novel
By Thomas KeneallyIn a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proven brilliant at exploring ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary events.
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Shame and the Captives: A Novel
By Thomas KeneallyA tale inspired by true events follows the experiences of a World War II prisoner's wife who befriends an Italian anarchist in the hopes of alleviating her husband's suffering, only to be swept up in a violent prison break.
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Shame and the Captives
By Thomas Keneally"On the edge of a small town in New South Wales, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, lies a prisoner-of-war camp housing Italian, Korean and Japanese soldiers.
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Shame and the Captives: A Novel
By Thomas KeneallyThough it was banal material, austerity fabrics, the little tailor transformed it all, and Sakura wore her clothes with an assumption that tended to turn everything to satin—except, of course, the shameful maroon of captivity.
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Shame and the Captives
By Thomas KeneallyThe camp commander and his deputy, each concealing a troubled private life, are disunited. And both fatally misread their Japanese captives, who burn with shame at being taken alive.
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Shame and the Captives: The Tom Keneally Collection
By Tom KeneallyThis is at least as good as any of them, and better, I should say, than Schindler’s Ark. The narrative is gripping, slow-moving but absorbing for the first half and more of the novel, then fast-moving, exciting and appalling.
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Shame and the Captives: The Tom Keneally Collection
By Tom KeneallyThis is at least as good as any of them, and better, I should say, than Schindler’s Ark. The narrative is gripping, slow-moving but absorbing for the first half and more of the novel, then fast-moving, exciting and appalling.