The Flamboya Tree : Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage - Softcover
- PublisherRandom House Australia
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1740512162
- ISBN 13 9781740512169
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Book Description Softcover. Reprint. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's name to the title page. 204 pages. The author's story of her family's internment by the Japanese during World War Two. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Seller Inventory # 284558
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Photographic and Facsimile (illustrator). First Edition. 350 g; XVI, 208 pages, illustrated with the occasional black-and-white photograph, and facsimile of documents. in original photographic illustrated softcover binding, the book is second-hand but shows no damage. When the Japanese invaded Java during the Second World War Clara was 4-year-old. Her family was separated, her father to the Burma railway and she with her mother and 2 brothers were interned in a women's camp. The author's descriptions of the appalling deprivations and impersonal brutality of the camp are counted by the current resilience shown by all the internees, most poignantly her own mother. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Photographic and Facsimile. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military History -- Prisoner- of- War; ISBN: 1740512162. ISBN/EAN: 9781740512169. Inventory No: 0233873. Seller Inventory # 0233873
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: 2003. A very good copy. MAR03. A heartbreaking account of the persecution and internment of a family by the Japanese during World War II, told from a child's point of view, 'The Flamboya Tree' is both a tribute to a mother's resilience and a poignant and timeless story. Its simplicity and the universal message of a mother's wartime love and courage infuse an account of terrible hardship with hope and inspiration.At the age of fifty-eight, Clara Olink Kelly sat down to write her very first book. 'The Flamboya Tree' is a lovingly written memoir that is a compelling tribute to her mother's resilience. Clara writes about her family's internment in a Japanese concentration camp on the beautiful Indonesian island of Java.Clara's mother, who led a pampered life before the war, enters the camp with three small children, including a six-week-old baby. Their father had already been taken away, forced to work on the Burma railroad. Through four unbearable, inhumane years of camp life, the Olinks survived, thanks to their mother's incredible tenacity.Told through the eyes of a young Clara, who was four at the beginning of her family's ordeal and eight when it ended, 'The Flamboya Tree' poignantly portrays her mother's unflagging courage and the buoyancy of the human spirit. Just as the family's painting of a Flamboya tree - a favourite artifact of their former life - miraculously survives every last-minute flight and surprise search by the Japanese, Clara carries her mother's spirit of love, humour, and bravery through all of her experiences and into the reader's heart. {"length"=>["20"], "width"=>["13"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 17217788
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Book Description Paperback. MAR03. A heartbreaking account of the persecution and internment of a family by the Japanese during World War II, told from a child's point of view, 'The Flamboya Tree' is both a tribute to a mother's resilience and a poignant and timeless story. Its simplicity and the universal message of a mother's wartime love and courage infuse an account of terrible hardship with hope and inspiration.At the age of fifty-eight, Clara Olink Kelly sat down to write her very first book. 'The Flamboya Tree' is a lovingly written memoir that is a compelling tribute to her mother's resilience. Clara writes about her family's internment in a Japanese concentration camp on the beautiful Indonesian island of Java.Clara's mother, who led a pampered life before the war, enters the camp with three small children, including a six-week-old baby. Their father had already been taken away, forced to work on the Burma railroad. Through four unbearable, inhumane years of camp life, the Olinks survived, thanks to their mother's incredible tenacity.Told through the eyes of a young Clara, who was four at the beginning of her family's ordeal and eight when it ended, 'The Flamboya Tree' poignantly portrays her mother's unflagging courage and the buoyancy of the human spirit. Just as the family's painting of a Flamboya tree - a favourite artifact of their former life - miraculously survives every last-minute flight and surprise search by the Japanese, Clara carries her mother's spirit of love, humour, and bravery through all of her experiences and into the reader's heart. Secondhand, good condition. Some tanning on outer pages. {"length"=>["20"], "width"=>["13"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 18170778
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