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King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut. Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore. Clavell was a prisoner in the Changi Prison camp, where the novel is set.
The story of ‘King Rat’ by James Clavell takes place in an enclosed small wartime POW camp with imprisoned English, Australians, and some Americans. Japanese soldiers guard the camp which is surrounded by jungle and Malay villages. It is standalone despite being labeled as #4 in the Asian Saga.
Set against the seething backdrop of a World War II prison camp in Japanese-occupied territory, King Rat is an epic novel of savagery and survival - and of one man's...
The epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell. Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls.
1 de sept. de 1986 · King Rat (Asian Saga) Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1986. The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike.
Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi.
28 de jul. de 2015 · The first-published but chronologically-fourth book of the Asian Saga, KING RAT follows a group of allied POWs in a Japanese internment camp in Singapore during World War II. The story revolves around “The King”, an American prisoner who hustles his way into a life of relative comfort amidst scarcity, sickness, and desperation.
