Zusatztext KING RAT is the best novel in English to have come out of Japanese prisoner of war camps . . . James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting! and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience! set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances Informationen zum Autor James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. It was on this experience that his bestselling novel KING RAT was based. He maintained this oriental interest in his other great works: TAI-PAN, SHOGUN, NOBLE HOUSE and GAI JIN. Clavell lived for many years in Vancouver and Los Angeles, before settling in Switzerland, where he died in 1994. Klappentext For the first time, a completely uncut edition of the classic Japanese POW story, also issued as an audiobook this month by Hodder Headline Audio. The completely uncut edition of James Clavell's classic KING RAT, in fresh new packaging for a new generation of readers Zusammenfassung The completely uncut edition of James Clavell's classic KING RAT, in fresh new packaging for a new generation of readers

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The completely uncut edition of James Clavell's classic KING RAT, in fresh new packaging for a new generation of readers

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James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. It was on this experience that his bestselling novel KING RAT was based. He maintained this oriental interest in his other great works: TAI-PAN, SHOGUN, NOBLE HOUSE and GAI JIN. Clavell lived for many years in Vancouver and Los Angeles, before settling in Switzerland, where he died in 1994.

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For the first time, a completely uncut edition of the classic Japanese POW story, also issued as an audiobook this month by Hodder Headline Audio.