- Paperback: 322 pages
- Publisher: OPUS PUBLICATIONS SDN BHD (31 Dec 2001)
- ISBN-10: 983398729X
- ISBN-13: 978-9833987290
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,100,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book relates how, after the release from captivity of Agnes Keith, her husband and her young son during the Japanese war in Borneo, they returned to the shattered British colony in North Borneo. She writes as a woman, as a wife and a mother, and her book is purely a personal experience story, related with a fine flair for detail and her keen sense of humour. White Man Returns is a sympathetic and sensitive story of the relationships between a devoted white family and the Chinese, the Indians, the Muruts and the Eurasians whom the Keiths in so many ways have tried to help. But above all, it is a record of the author's own growth in understanding and love for her fellow human beings the world over.
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Epilogue
8 Dec 2005
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This book contains the post-War Borneo memoirs of Agnes Keith. Keith, who had published a popular book, Land Beneath the Wind, about life as the wife of a colonial official in Northern Borneo in 1939, returned to Borneo in time to be interned by the Japanese. Her experiences in the Japanese prison camps were the topic of her second book, Three Came Home. This third book is about her return to Borneo and her recovery from the years in prison camp. Much of the first half of this book catches us up with what happened to the familiar characters from her earlier books during the War. The members of her domestic staff had been dispersed, and not all survived the years of deprivation and depravity. Thus, she had to hire new staff, who also brought with them some heavy emotional baggage from the War. The second half of the book relates some of the adventures of her son George as he lives the second half of his boyhood in Borneo, this time in freedom and as a member of a privileged, if not wealthy, class. The remainder of the book is filled out with anecdotes of life in Southeast Asia, including correspondence from Japan and China, a jungle trek, and a racially motivated murder.
Keith is a wonderful storyteller. It is refreshing to read in her tales how normal a boy George turned out to be, despite his rough start in the prison camps. I found the stories from the first part of the book most compelling, the ones in which she seemed to be working out her own recovery from post-traumatic stress as much as telling the stories. As we read in these pages, in the five years following the War, she gradually pulled her emotions together again, and was even eventually able to manage some humor. Her war time experiences also strengthened her ties with the local populace of Borneo--the Chinese, the Indians, the Malays, and the tribal people. If you have enjoyed any of Keith's earlier books or seen the movie Three Came Home, you will want to read this book to find out what happened next.
Keith is a wonderful storyteller. It is refreshing to read in her tales how normal a boy George turned out to be, despite his rough start in the prison camps. I found the stories from the first part of the book most compelling, the ones in which she seemed to be working out her own recovery from post-traumatic stress as much as telling the stories. As we read in these pages, in the five years following the War, she gradually pulled her emotions together again, and was even eventually able to manage some humor. Her war time experiences also strengthened her ties with the local populace of Borneo--the Chinese, the Indians, the Malays, and the tribal people. If you have enjoyed any of Keith's earlier books or seen the movie Three Came Home, you will want to read this book to find out what happened next.
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