In this highly autobiographical novel, the protagonist, a boy named Jim, is interred in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China during World War II--separated from his parents, and forced to struggle for survival in an alien world. The story culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki ...
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Salman Rushdie's first full-length novel since THE SATANIC VERSES is the story of a dynasty of spice traders in Bombay. The families in the story are neither Hindu nor Muslim, but Jewish and Christian. Rushdie follows his usual circuitous route to the end of the story, but the telling of the story h ...
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Winner of the Booker prize in 1974, JG Farrell's dark social satire THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR recounts a besieged British garrison in a remote region of India during the "Sepoy uprising" of 1857. Trapped in their gilded prison, cut off from food, water, and supplies, the Victorian English begin to los ...
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