This book is all kinds of difficult and all kinds of awesome all at the same time. It’s hard to read but I think it’s very much worth the effort it takes.
Here’s a teaser where two World War 2 Japanese officials in charge of a prison camp in Siam (present-day Thailand) are quoting bits and pieces of poetry to each other. This they do after a long day of supervising prison labor (involving torturing, beating, and starving POWs under their control).
Just reading that sentence made me laugh and gave me the chills all at the same time.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Oo, that is a chilling passage. Excellent selection.
Interesting teaser. Seems to nail the way some of them think quite well. Mine is from a memoir of a woman growing up in the south http://razzberrycoloredglasses.blogspot.com/2015/04/teaser-tuesday-under-magnolia-by.html
That’s a captivating teaser. So well explained.
My TT – http://fuonlyknew.com/2015/04/07/teaser-tuesdays-109-the-publicist-by-christina-george/
I can understand the chills!
My teaser this week from an upcoming young adult book: http://pdworkman.com/pre-release-excerpt-from-june-and-justin/