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2010 Longlist

Rainforest Tears: A Borneo Story

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Borneo, 1937: Geoffrey Portas arrives to work in the oilfields of Sarawak, a place where exotica substitutes tedium and cerulean seas replace grey English winters. Gripped by location and circumstances, life in this sultry sanctuary of colonial languor exceeds all expectations.

Then, life is torn asunder as Japanese bombs rain down across the Pacific. Asian attitudes change as the avaricious, compassionless minority sense the loosening of their colonial shackles. Conscripted into Britain’s Special Operations Executive, Portas sets about fighting a merciless enemy.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Paul
Leslie Smith

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Rainforest Tears is a blockbuster of a historical novel, a thoroughly researched fiction of Sarawak opposition against the Japanese invasion in 1942.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Editions

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