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Predicated on true situations, this attractively rendered book from the writer of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II jail camp where Japanese prisoners resolve to take severe action to clean away their pity. Alice is a woman living on her behalf father-in-law's plantation on the border associated with an Australian country town while her partner is placed prisoner in European countries. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war camp later on, is assigned to work on the plantation, she hopes that being kind to him will somehow influence her husband's treatment. What she doesn't anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will develop her prospect and self-knowledge. But what most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of 1 1,000-plus Japanese inmates and their culture, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being used alive in fight and preferring a violent fatality to the pity of living, they plan an outbreak, to shattering and far-reaching results on all the people around them. In a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proven a expert at exploring normal lives caught up in extraordinary situations. With this profoundly gripping and thought-provoking book, inspired with a notorious occurrence in New South Wales in 1944, he once more shows why he's celebrated as a copy writer who "looks into the heart and soul of the human condition with a piercing brains that few can match" (Sunday Telegraph).
