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Caprices
Sabina Murray
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Paperback / so. From an acclaimed young author of Filipino background comes a history of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, told through individual lives. Her accomplished stories depict a savage war and the lives that it altered. BIC Classification: FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 254.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray ... Read more
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802143136
SKU
V9780802143136
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