MountainYoda on Nostr: Very highly recommend reading King Rat. Plot: “King asks for the best of each man ...
Very highly recommend reading King Rat.
Plot: “King asks for the best of each man and rewards him accordingly, irrespective of class or position.”
King Rat is a 1962 debut novel by James Clavell.
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.
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