Product Description
A tale of the Blackett family's prosperous world in Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War.
About the Author
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and Ireland, where he spent much of his childhood, and a prolonged visit to the Far East to research the background for this novel. Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973. He died in 1979.

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At the Turnstyle leading from the carrpark leading up the first steep sand dune leading to Ocean Beach.

Was thrilled to find this book on a fence going to the Kawhia Beach - not a normal book location.
Currently 1/2 way through and finding the characters very in tune with 1940s style, language and values before the fall of Singapore -a world in many ways forgotten. Now unable to put it down and reading it at any opportunity I get.

An interesting read.

Wild Release notes: Rocket Cafe, Grey Street, Hamilton East 24 November 2010