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Jan 18, 2021jeanie123 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Parts of this are very well-written but it is overly long and dragged out. The plight of the Australians in a Japanese POW camp in Burma is shocking and that level of cruelty and suffering is difficult to understand or relate to in the present day. Of course it had a profound and negative effect on most of the survivors both mentally and physically and relationships were forever changed. However, the same reflections and analysis of the protagonist's relationships both before and after the war are dredged up over and over but don't really reveal anything new. I thought the book had ended about six times, but it just kept going and going. Parts of the denouement were kind of trite and same-same, sort of like an O. Henry short story.