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Thief of glory, a novel, Sigmund Brouwer

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Thief of glory, a novel, Sigmund Brouwer

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Thief of glory

Responsibility statement

Sigmund Brouwer

Sub title

a novel

Summary

For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, a life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942. When the Japanese Imperialist army invades the Southeast Pacific, and his father and older stepbrothers are separated from the rest of the family, Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings. But he is surprised by what life in the camp reveals about his frail, troubled mother?a woman he barely knows.Time and war will test their fortitude and the only thing that will bring them safely to the other side is the most enduring bond of all

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