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Bambusová trilogie

Tato trilogie historické fikce vás zavede do bouřlivého období druhé světové války v jihovýchodní Asii. Příběhy proplétají osudy lidí z různých kultur a prostředí, které jsou vrženy do víru konfliktu. Každý díl lze číst samostatně, což nabízí flexibilní a poutavý vhled do jednoho z nejvýznamnějších období moderních dějin. Objevte sílu lidského ducha tváří v tvář nepřízni osudu.

Bamboo Heart
Bamboo Island

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  1. Bamboo Island

    • 352 stránek
    • 13 hodin čtení
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    Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner's wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. However, the sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts her lonely existence and stirs up unsettling memories. Juliet is forced to recount her troubled prewar marriage, her life during the Second World War, hiding from the Japanese in Singapore before being captured and tortured then imprisoned with other British and Australian POWs in Changi, and the loss of those she once held dear.

    Bamboo Island
  2. Bamboo Heart

    • 352 stránek
    • 13 hodin čtení
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    Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and lugging wood. London, 1986: Laura Ellis, a successful City lawyer, turns her back on her yuppie existence and travels to Southeast Asia. In Thailand and Malaysia she retraces her father's past and discovers the truths he has refused to tell her. And in the place where her father once suffered and survived, she will finally find out how he got his Bamboo Heart. Bamboo Heart is volume one in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Island and Bamboo Road.

    Bamboo Heart