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During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill, organises the evacuation and takes with him his Burmese mistress and her young brother. Inevitably, as the journey continues, bitterness, tension and insoluble conflict unfold.

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Jacaranda Tree The

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      Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/05/2006
      ISBN13: 9780413775993, 978-0413775993
      ISBN10: 0413775992

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill, organises the evacuation and takes with him his Burmese mistress and her young brother. Inevitably, as the journey continues, bitterness, tension and insoluble conflict unfold.

      Trade Review
      "'Few writers have a more exact feel for texture - of a flower, a face, a silence - and it is this that has value,' Spectator"

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