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Sep 26, 2017
Not sure why this author is so "celebrated" and wins so many awards. Because he's from Tasmania, therefore "exotic" and unusual? This was the second book of his I tried to read...I say "tried" because I just couldn't stick with it, ended up giving up after less than 50 pages. I thought I'd give this a try, being about a subject that has always fascinated me, POWs and how WWII had so many things that could have easily been called "war crimes". Yet only one side ever seemed to get called to account for it, as always. But this...I have to agree with at least one other person here...pretentious and over-written doesn't even begin to describe it. Cormac McCarthy clones are a dime a dozen it seems, and very few can pull it off. Including this guy, in my opinion anyhow.