ISBN: 0749702095
Godina izdanja: 1963
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Richard Mason - The Wind Cannot Read
Pan Books, 1963
271 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro
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The romance of a British officer and a Japanese girl that concentrates their love against wartime India. The Burma retreat takes Michael Quinn out of the Air Force, he decides to study Japanese for further Army assignments, and in Bombay, the new class is instructed by a Japanese civilian, and Miss Woi, a highborn Japanese girl who has taken a Chinese name and come from England to help in the teaching. Michael learns that his hatred of Japanese does not apply to her and learns that she loves him. He is forced to stand many insults, slurs, and to defend his feeling for her, but their affaire is not hurt by any outsider. Almost killed on a mission to a forward area, Michaels returns to find Sabby dying, as she had known she would, is left to understand the love they had. A sure handling of the material used, a love story that will not cloy, this has sincere, appealing moments.


Richard Mason was a British novelist. Born near Manchester, he was educated in Dorset, then worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council. The Second World War gave him a chance to learn Japanese and he became an interrogator of prisoners of war.

As an author Mason wrote The Wind Cannot Read which was finished during the Burma Campaign; The Shadow and the Peak (filmed as Passionate Summer, starring Dirk Bogarde); and The Fever Tree, a story of espionage set in India and Nepal.

His experiences while living in Hong Kong inspired him to write The World of Suzie Wong. This was adapted into a Broadway play in 1958 and later into a film in 1960.

Mason, a cigarette smoker, died of throat cancer in Rome,Italy, where he had lived for nearly 40 years.