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Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms

✍ Scribed by Heiss, Anita


Book ID
109047569
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Australia
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781925184846

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✦ Synopsis


'Tact and intelligence are sustained to the end of this bold novel of the wartime home front' β€” Sydney Morning Herald

A story about a love that transcends all boundaries, from one of Australia's best loved authors.

5 AUGUST, 1944

Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured, and some take their own lives rather than suffer the humiliation of ongoing defeat.

But one soldier, Hiroshi, manages to escape.

At nearby Erambie Station, an Aboriginal mission, Banjo Williams, father of five and proud man of his community, discovers Hiroshi, distraught and on the run. Unlike most of the townsfolk who dislike and distrust the Japanese, the people of Erambie choose compassion and offer Hiroshi refuge. Mary, Banjo's daughter, is intrigued by the softly spoken stranger, and charged with his care.

For the...


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