{"product_id":"shame-and-the-captives-paperback-1","title":"Shame and the Captives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Keneally\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If the legendary \u003ci\u003eSchindler's List \u003c\/i\u003ewas not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally's literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice is 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 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 husband's treatment. What she doesn't anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will change the way she understands both herself and the wider world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \"looks into the heart of the human condition with a piercing intelligence that few can match\" (\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-three novels since, most recently \u003ci\u003eCrimes of the Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNapoleon's Last Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShame and the Captives\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Daughters of Mars\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSchindler's List\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, \u003ci\u003eThe Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGossip from the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConfederates\u003c\/i\u003e, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of nonfiction, including his boyhood memoir \u003ci\u003eHomebush Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Commonwealth of Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSearching for Schindler\u003c\/i\u003e. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267075391737,"sku":"9781476734651","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/B_0ltnLHMp9781476734651_d8bb4834-f784-4cd0-b70e-5191b66db29c.webp?v=1768858085","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/shame-and-the-captives-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}