
The Caprices
Sabina Murray(Author)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Will be published approx. on 26. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8021-4313-6 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist's eye for detail, Murray shines light on the tangle of battles created by that conflict, the violent reach across the generations, the shattering reverberations in memory. With this collection, Sabina Murray established herself as a passionate and wise voice of literary fiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-4313-6 (9780802143136)
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