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Bamboo heart
- Title
- Bamboo heart / Ann Bennett.
- Author
- Bennett, Ann, 1962-
- Publication
- Singapore : Monsoon Books Pte Ltd, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6102.E555 B36 2014g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 352 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Prisoners of war
- Fathers and daughters
- England
- Burma-Siam Railroad Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Fiction
- Fathers and daughters > Fiction
- Novels
- Prisoners of war > Thailand > Fiction
- Prisoners of war > England > Fiction
- Thailand
- War fiction
- Historical fiction
- World War (1939-1945)
- Burma-Siam Railroad
- Fiction
- 1939-1945
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- War fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Novel.
- "Bamboo Heart is volume one in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Island and Bamboo Road"--Page preceding the title page.
- Language (note)
- In English.
- ISBN
- 9789814423731
- 9814423734
- 9789814423748 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017344134
- OCLC
- ocn871636245
- 871636245
- SCSB-9078340
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries