Trilogia del Bambù Serie

Questa trilogia di narrativa storica trasporta i lettori nel Sud-est asiatico durante i turbolenti anni della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Le narrazioni tessono insieme i destini intrecciati di individui provenienti da contesti diversi, gettati nel cuore del conflitto. Ogni episodio può essere apprezzato in modo indipendente, offrendo un'esplorazione flessibile e avvincente di un'era cruciale. È uno sguardo potente sulla resilienza umana e sullo spirito duraturo in mezzo al tumulto globale.

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Bamboo Island
Bennett Anne
352pagine
13 ore di lettura
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Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner's wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. However, the sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts her lonely existence and stirs up unsettling memories. Juliet is forced to recount her troubled prewar marriage, her life during the Second World War, hiding from the Japanese in Singapore before being captured and tortured then imprisoned with other British and Australian POWs in Changi, and the loss of those she once held dear.
Bamboo Heart
Bennett Anne
352pagine
13 ore di lettura
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Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and lugging wood. London, 1986: Laura Ellis, a successful City lawyer, turns her back on her yuppie existence and travels to Southeast Asia. In Thailand and Malaysia she retraces her father's past and discovers the truths he has refused to tell her. And in the place where her father once suffered and survived, she will finally find out how he got his Bamboo Heart. Bamboo Heart is volume one in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Island and Bamboo Road.

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Bamboo Island

Bamboo Heart