PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The Caprices
A short-story collection set in the Pacific theater of World War II, tracing how war reshapes ethics and memory through multiple lives and viewpoints.
Work Information
A WWII Pacific stories collection that follows the shadow of war across several lives.
Through several stories set in the Pacific theater, the book shows the scars war leaves on choice and memory. It is a collection where allegory and history meet.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Published
- 2007-06-10
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.65 x 20.83 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780802143136
- ISBN-10
- 080214313X
- Price
- 4932 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray shines light on the tangle of battles created by that conflict, the violent reach across the generations, the shattering reverberations in memory. With this collection, Sabina Murray established herself as a passionate and wise voice of literary fiction.