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The Caprices

The Caprices( )
Author: Murray, Sabina
ISBN:978-0-8021-4313-6
Publication Date:Jun 2007
Publisher:Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Imprint:Grove Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $13.00
Book Description:

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii & Holocaust
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.6 Inches
Book Weight:0.561 Pounds
Author Biography
Murray, Sabina (Author)
She grew up in Austrialia & the Philippines. A former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas & Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University, she is the author of the novel Slow Burn. She has also written a screenplay titled Beautiful Country.She is the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.

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