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The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java - Rilegato

Hillen, Ernest

 
9780670850495: The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java
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ISBN 10: 0670850497 ISBN 13: 9780670850495
Casa editrice: Viking, 1994

Sinossi

This is a chronicle of the years Ernest Hillen spent as a little boy (aged 8-11) in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. The year is 1942, World War II is raging and the Japanese have just invaded the island. Overnight - and for the next three and a half years - life is ruled by tension, fear and unpredictability as the boy struggles to endure the cruel camp conditions. Ernest comes to understand his new world by observing others: Japanese soldiers, fellow prisoners and his mother, who fights to retain her moral values amidst brutal deprivation and degradation. To survive, young Ernest is obliged to master such basic skills as lying, stealing and fighting. But he also learns to practise patience, generosity and self-control, to quell self-pity, to take nothing for granted and to trust only with caution.

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With 24 illustrations in black and withe . 8vo pp. 200 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)

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Editore
Viking
Data di pubblicazione
1994
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0670850497
ISBN 13 
9780670850495
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
208
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