Lorna C. (cookiemonster71) reviewed on 2/23/2015 + 26 more book reviews

This is the first book I have ever read about POWs in Asia during WWII. It was a fresh topic for me and eye opening in the level of inhumanaity one person can have toward another and justifying it as due to a higher cause. Beautifully written, the story goes back and forth from the present to a pre-war past to the horrors of the war and back to the present. If you can appreciate a topic written in a way that will force you think about duty, love, heroism, war and death, this is the book for you. AFter reading it, I understand why it won the Man Booker Award.

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