If the legendary Schindlers List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneallys literary mastery, then this novel surely will New York Daily News as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the largest and bloodiest prison escape of World War II. Alice is living on her father-in-laws farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian inmate at the prisoner-of-war camp down the road, is assigned to work on the farm, she hopes that being kind to him will somehow influence her husbands treatment. What she doesnt anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will change the way she understands both herself and the wider world.
