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| Title | : | King Rat (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #4) |
| Author | : | James Clavell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2009 by Delta (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. Classics |
James Clavell
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 4.14 | 32029 Users | 835 Reviews
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The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path.Point Books During King Rat (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #4)
| Original Title: | King Rat |
| ISBN: | 0385333765 (ISBN13: 9780385333764) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Saga: Chronological Order #4, Asian Saga: Publication Order #1 |
| Setting: | Singapore,1945 |
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Was googling Japanese POW camps to find more info after reading this amazing story. It's not for the faint of heart but very well done and worth your time. Just very eye opening to the deplorable conditions that prisoners lived in in that era. My grandparents lived in China during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and I remember them talking of a Japanese woman surviver that lived near them and took care of their children. Very good book!!!A brutally realistic account of soldier's survival in a Japanese WWII prison camp.Clavell doing what he does best; making history come to life with very interesting and entertaining fiction.Back for more...i just found out that King Rat is in part autobiographical. Clavell was apparently a POW himself. That explains are great deal. i was very much awed that a fictional book could be so incredibly detailed and convey the day to day struggle of the characters so well. JC was writing from
(4.5 stars) After a stretch of the book crankies, this one finally broke the bad luck. That's probably due in no small part to the fact that the 1965 movie "King Rat," with George Segal and James Fox, is tremendously awesome and one of the best war or prison pictures I've ever seen. It's the complete flip side to the jaunty and fun "The Great Escape" (the screenplay of which, oddly enough, was penned by Clavell.)Clavell's style here isn't exactly my cup of tea: so many run-on sentences, and I
The book surprised me. I thought it was about how the Japanese persecuted their POWs on Singapore.But the Japanese had little to do in the book. It was about how Americans, Australian and British POWs interacted, traded, . treated each other and survived imprisonment. Wonder how much of this was based on fact.
A Novel about prisoners of war in Asia that was wonderfully narrated.
As an Author myself I trace my roots on why I wanted to write back to "King Rat." After "Shogun" this is probably my favorite Clavell story, and rightfully so, as this was written based on Clavell's own experiences in a POW camp in WW II.What I take most from this book is that it directly inspired me to pursue writing, not for writing's sake, but to leave something worthwhile behind to inspire future generations.
I wish every first novels had such ambition, scope and gusto. KING RAT is about the manliest, most violently existential novel south of Hemingway. It's full of dudes lost without the structure and the social status that normal life usually provides and completely adrift, not knowing the faith of the free world during WWII. KING RAT depicts the microcosm that was formed by all this doubt and confusion and follows the faith of men who used to live by the rules and the men who decided to create
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