Bridge Over the River Kwai, The - Softcover

Boulle, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553248502 ISBN 13: 9780553248500

Publisher: Bantam, 1984

Synopsis

Re-creates events surrounding the building of a Japanese supply bridge over the River Kwai during World War II by British prisoners

About this title

About the Author:

Pierre Boulle was born in Avignon, France, in 1912. He originally trained as an engineer, but in 1936 he went to Malaysia and worked as a rubber planter. In 1939 he was called up in the French forces in Indochina, and when France fell during World War II, he fled to Singapore, where he joined the Free French Mission. After the Japanese invasion, he was sent via Rangoon and the Burma Road to Yunnan to establish contact with Kuomintang forces. He infiltrated Indochina as a guerilla where he was captured in 1943. He escaped in 1944, was picked up by a British plane, and served in the Special Forces in Calcutta for the rest of the war.His first novel to be published in the United States was The Bridge on the River Kwai. The book was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve prize in France, which led to the film version that received an amazing seven Academy Awards. He considered his subsequent books, of which Planet of the Apes is the most well known, to be social fantasies.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0553248502
• ISBN 13: 9780553248500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192