Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Agnes Newton Keith Libros
Agnes Keith fue una autora estadounidense cuyas obras se nutrieron profundamente de sus experiencias personales en Borneo Septentrional Británico. Con sensibilidad y humor, capturó la esencia de la vida dentro de una exótica sociedad colonial, representando a los pueblos locales con afecto y simpatía. Su prosa ofreció una perspectiva única sobre los encuentros culturales y la resiliencia del espíritu humano, particularmente durante las duras condiciones del internamiento en tiempos de guerra. El trabajo de Keith ofrece a los lectores una visión íntima de la navegación por las complejidades de la vida en una tierra extranjera, marcada por una aguda observación y una fortaleza perdurable.
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
