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Bezig met laden... The Persimmon Tree (2007)door Bryce Courtenay
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I have never liked Bryce Courtenays' writing ( except for Jessica which I saw the movie not read the book) but I thought I would give it another go so I got the audiobook of The Persimmon Tree - what can I say - boring ! He spends soooo long on describing minor events ... I'm sorry to say he's still my least favorite author to date. I couldn't get past about 20% of this one. I really liked this book. It gave me a perspective of the Pacific theatre of WWII that is not easy to understand. The book is really two stories in a very long book. One story is a coming of age story of Nick Duncan, an eighteen year old butterfly collector who because of his experience in the jungle and knowledge of Japanese is eventually recruited as an Australian coastwatcher. First though he meets and falls in love with Anna a half Javanese/dutch knockout...and that is the other half of the story detailing her life in Java under Japanese occupation. With the exception of some stories in this book the war is a bit sanitized but you meet some really interesting characters (Little Bloke for one) and their stores are well interwoven to the main two characters. For a long book (about 700+ pages) I thought the plot moved along well though I thought Anna's involvement with the Japanese general started to drag a bit towards the end of her section of the book. The last 100 pages or so seem anti-climactic to me. It ties up loose ends but it was in a then-he-did this...then-he-did-that...he/she-helped-here...he/she-would not help-here. That aside it was a very satisfying read...no real complaints Bryce Courtenay became one of my favourite authors after I read his first novel "The Power of One", but I must confess that I went off him after reading "Tandia'. I am delighted to say that "The Persimmon Tree" has really put him back on my bookshelf!. The Persimmon Tree is a love story with lots of action (?) thrown in. The characters are plausible except for Nicholas who, at the age of 17, is so capable of doing anything and everything that he is a superhero! I thoroughly enjoyed this story, even at my second reading of it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. Penguin Australia2 edities van dit boek werden gepubliceerd door Penguin Australia. Edities: 067007070X, 0143007009 |
This is a great novel, one that I would recommend to anyone that is looking for an inspiring love story. ( )