The Seed and the Sower

Oct 23, 2024 8:17 AM

Author:Laurens Van Der Post

What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners - and their gaolers. In a battle for survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationships develop.

Reviews

Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there.

—— Irish Times

Simply brilliant and naturalistically told

—— Guardian

The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book

—— Sunday Telegraph

The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting

—— Daily Telegraph

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