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1 online resource (495 pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; SIAM DIARY: MAY 1944; BONDI: WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 1990; BONDI: THURSDAY 19 APRIL 1990; BONDI: FRIDAY 20 APRIL 1990; BONDI: SUNDAY 22 APRIL 1990; BONDI: TUESDAY 24 APRIL 1990; SYDNEY DIARY: DECEMBER 1941; BONDI: WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 1990; BONDI: THURSDAY 26 APRIL 1990; BONDI: FRIDAY 27 APRIL 1990; CHANGI DIARY: MAY 1942; BONDI: FRIDAY 27 APRIL 1990; BONDI: SATURDAY 28 APRIL 1990; BONDI: SATURDAY 28 APRIL 1990; BONDI: SUNDAY 29 APRIL 1990; BONDI: MONDAY 30 APRIL 1990; SIAM DIARY: 1944; BONDI: TUESDAY 1 MAY 1990. |
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Bondi: wednesday 2 may 1990bondi: thursday 3 may 1990; bondi: saturday 5 may 1990; bondi: saturday 12 may 1990; bondi: tuesday 15 may 1990; bondi: sunday 20 may 1990; botany cemetery: wednesday 23 may 1990; sydney diary: april 1949; redfern: saturday 26 may 1990; acknowledgments; note on the author. |
| Summary |
David is thirteen and confused. His mum has gone off with her lover and sent David to his grandparents to give her new relationship some 'space'. David's grandfather, Jimmy - a Jewish war veteran and survivor of the enforced labour on the Thai-Burma railway - is seventy. Haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, the only person he can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world. Funny, wise and deeply moving, Spirit House is a remarkable story of war and the fall of Singapore, of the bonds of friendship and the bonds of grief, and of. |
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Changi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore) -- Fiction.
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Burma-Siam Railroad -- Fiction.
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Grandparent and child -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Australian fiction.
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Bondi (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- Fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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FICTION -- Literary.
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Burma-Siam Railroad. (OCoLC)fst00585142 |
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Changi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore) (OCoLC)fst00775527 |
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Australian fiction. (OCoLC)fst00821424
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Grandparent and child. (OCoLC)fst00946360
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Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543 |
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New South Wales -- Sydney -- Bondi. (OCoLC)fst01325411 |
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Electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Dapin, Mark. Spirit House. New York : Atlantic Books Ltd, ©2013 9781782390879 |
| ISBN |
9781782391104 electronic bk. |
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178239110X electronic bk. |
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