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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful yarn in the typical style of Malouf's stories and style. An epic of story that covers decades but neatly weaves simple stories about people's everydayness, even in the context of war and capture. His sense of history neatly draws a thread through the sequence of scenes or connected stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73935618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fabulous read with big themes as the reader follows the lives of two Australian men, who met in a WWII POW camp.  Their lives and those of their family are explored.  Relationships to each other and the world are central.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hunt a Book<br/><br/>ANZLL discussion.<br/>Didn't write any journal entries on this book, but thought it was classic Malouf, very haunting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so boring and confusing I gave up.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of two Australian men, Digger and Vic, and how their lives are effected by being prisoners-of-war together in a WWII Japanese camp. The author is especially skilled at description and there are several very moving scenes with beautiful imagery. This writing falls into the <em>New Yorker</em> catego...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18891603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is a look at history from down-under.  Australia's role in the war and how it affected the country is a part of this book.  Of course it's about all of us]]></body>
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