Day #13 of the 30 Day Book Challenge
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shadowkatDay #13 of the 30 day Book Challenge
The prompt is A book set in a different country other than England aka Great Britain or the United States or your own country, where you are residing - otherwise it would be too easy.
My choice:
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.
I loved this book when I read it in the 1980s, in high school. Although I'm not entirely certain it holds up well now. The book was written in the 1950s and takes place in the 1940s, so is definitely a book of its time.
Also, keep in mind, while I do remember portions of it vividly, I have not read it since the 1980s. I picked it, because for some reason or other I remember it better than some of the ones I've read in the last twenty years.
What can I say, memory is an odd thing.
The book was better than the 1981 film.
The prompt is A book set in a different country other than England aka Great Britain or the United States or your own country, where you are residing - otherwise it would be too easy.
My choice:
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.
I loved this book when I read it in the 1980s, in high school. Although I'm not entirely certain it holds up well now. The book was written in the 1950s and takes place in the 1940s, so is definitely a book of its time.
Also, keep in mind, while I do remember portions of it vividly, I have not read it since the 1980s. I picked it, because for some reason or other I remember it better than some of the ones I've read in the last twenty years.
What can I say, memory is an odd thing.
The book was better than the 1981 film.