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02848aam a2200373 a 4500 001 6876AB02831111E79295C63D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170817010025 008 150312s2014 meu gd 000 1 eng 020 $a 1410476693 020 $a 9781410476692 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Kenally, Thomas 245 00 $a Shame and the captives 260 $a Waterville, Maine, $b Thorndike, $c 2014. 300 $a p.cm. (large print) ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman 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 anarchist 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 expand her outlook and self-knowledge. But what most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their culture, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken alive in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, they plan an outbreak, to shattering and far-reaching effects on all the citizens around them. In a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proved a master 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" (Sunday Telegraph)"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 04 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Australian $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Japanese $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Australia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Japan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Escapes $z Cowra (N.S.W.) $z Cowra (N.S.W.) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / General. $2 bisacsh 651 0 $a Australia $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Cowra (N.S.W.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a War stories. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l DAPG173 $d 20170817010533.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6876AB02831111E79295C63D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search