Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
La Trilogie de BornéoSéries
Cette trilogie autobiographique offre un regard intime sur la vie dans le Bornéo du Nord, l'actuel Sabah, pendant la période turbulente avant, pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'auteur saisit avec sensibilité les transformations du paysage et de la société, révélant des expériences personnelles et racontant des histoires de résilience et d'adaptation. Les lecteurs s'immergeront dans l'histoire et la culture de la région à travers des témoignages personnels convaincants. C'est une lecture fascinante pour les passionnés d'histoire, de voyages et d'histoires humaines fortes.
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When the Japanese swept through Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith was captured with her two-year-old son. Even though keeping notes was a capital offence, she wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of old newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her sons home-made toys. Unlike many other narrators of camp life, Agnes Keith gives an honest and rounded description of her Japanese captors. The camp commander, Colonel Suga, was responsible for a forced march which killed all but three out of 2,970 prisoners; yet he regularly took children for joy-rides in his car, stuffing them with sweets, and sent them back to camp with armfuls of flowers from his garden
