This book focuses on a handful of central issues: the position of women, the problems of youth, the dilemma of the aged who, as in the U.S., are forced out of their children's smaller homes and retire too early on an inadequate pension, and the familiar problems of a dehumanizing industrial society. Mrs. Keith has achieved to expose a composite of what the Japanese wish a stranger to know; along with her spontaneous observations of individuals and crowded cityscapes.

Before the blossoms fall: Life and death in Japan

agnes-newton-keith

Little,Brown

"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, North Borneo (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September, 1945.

Three Came Home

History

Military

Corgi Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

BANTAM BOOKS

Beloved Exiles

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

M.Joseph

This book tells the experiences of a family imprisoned in a Japanese internee camp during World War II. In 1942, Japan occupied Borneo and the author Agnes Keith, her husband and their 1.5 years old son George were imprisoned in an internee camp. As a captive, the author used the keen eyes unique to a writer to observe herself, the captives around and the complicated Japanese who were both violent and gentle. This book records but never renders pains, observes the human nature but never attacks any individual; the author's writing is restrained and touching. In 1950, it was adapted into the same name film Three Came Home by Hollywood.

MCCLELLAND STEWART

This book was written during an era when Sabah was known as North Borneo, and when life was very much different from today s. Reprinted many times, this classic, of Agnes Keith s observations and reflections of the time, is a true-to-life record of society and culture then and of the captivating natural beauty of Sabah. Today, Sabah continues to be known as the land below the wind , a phrase used by seafarers in the past to describe all the lands south of the typhoon belt, but which Agnes effectively reserved for Sabah through her book. One of few written accounts of contemporary life in Borneo in the 1930s, this book is an invaluable record of a world gone by.

Land Below the Wind

Travel

Pictorial

Non Basic Stock Line

First published 1946, by Little Brown and Company, Boston, U.S.A.; printed in Malaysia.

The Genus Pleione

Natural History Publications (

Natural History Pub. Borneo

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