Bryce Courtenay
Hardcover | Pages: 711 pages Rating: 4.02 | 4090 Users | 321 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree #1) |
| Author | : | Bryce Courtenay |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 711 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2007 by Viking |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Audiobook |
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The Persimmon Tree is unashamedly a love story. I've always wanted to write one but until now have been afraid to do so. The reason is simple enough: most men in my experience have very little idea of what really goes on in a woman's heart or head. Now, at the age of 74, I just might know enough and have sufficient courage to write on the subject - the way of a man with a woman, of a woman with a man. My story is set in the Pacific, although not in the paradise we've always been led to believe exists there. It is 1942 in Java and the Japanese are invading the islands like a swarm of locusts. I have tried to capture the essence of love - how in a world gone mad with malice and hate, it has the ability to forgive and to heal. As it is in this story, love is always hard earned but, in the end, a most wonderful and necessary emotion. Without love, life for most of us would lack true meaning. Sincerely, Bryce CourtenayDescribe Books As The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree #1)
| Original Title: | The Persimmon Tree |
| ISBN: | 067007070X (ISBN13: 9780670070701) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9780670070701 |
| Series: | The Persimmon Tree #1 |
| Setting: | Java(Indonesia) |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 4090 Users | 321 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree #1)
This is another one of those times when I agree with both the positive and negative reviews of a book. With a greater than 4 star rating, clearly the positive ones outnumber the negative. However, I always try to read the lower scoring reviews of any book Im interested in to glean something valuable possibly missed by the popular audience. If you have not read it and are interested in this book you already enter with a preconception that you will probably enjoy reading it. I suggest that youAn eloquently written chronicle of the events of WWII in the Pacific and the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies. The war narratives were a bit longwinded, confronting and gruelling for me, but the unfolding personal journeys around the characters and their relationships, especially Nicholas and Anna provided compelling reading.
A consummate storyteller, book lovers have been robbed of a great author with the passing of Bryce Courtenay. This has to be one of the most enjoyable books I have read (listened to) in a long time. OK, so our hero suffers from the same goody - goody-ness and fantastical fabulosity as the hero in The Power of One, but if one skims through those cringy parts, this is a great story. Anna is a wonderful character and the tripping from Java to Australia, with the Japanese lurking in the background
Is there nothing Nick Duncan can't do? He's a wizz at school, a natural war hero, pulls chick's with just a smile and more more more. As usual with Bryce Courtenay, this is a big book, a huge story and a full cast. Never a dull moment, even for a butterfly collector.
I haven't done it yet, but will find mild pleasure in burning this book. And I won't feel like a Nazi.I could only get 100 pages into this 600 page novel. From the heights of "The Power Of One" it just seems to me that Courtney has dissolved into ugliness.A character, who you hope will be discarded very quickly within the novel is developed into a theme. A character who cannot speak English clearly (he speaks guttural slang, and is laboriously developed as a half-wit), is sad, downtrodden,
Finally! I have found a book to break the 3-star slump I seemed to be in.I have found a new author and new narrator. Bryce has a lot more novels to discover, and Humphrey Bower brings many of them to life with his fabulous command of accents.The story has a little bit of everything. It is a romance, but not a mushy tale, of two young people separated by war when the Japanese invade Java. Nick sets sail for Australia expecting to meet Anna there. Anna, gets caught behind enemy lines and learns to
Relieved my sister of this great honking huge (852 pages!) paperback before she even had a chance to read it. Courtenay is the author of the wonderful The Power of One set in South Africa, where he was born. The Persimmon Tree is set more in his adopted country of Australia where he has lived for years. It is the story of two star-crossed lovers during the second world war. Nick is the son of a Australian missionary who has spent most of his career in Japan and Indonesia. Anna is the daughter of
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