A Town Like Alice Okri Ben never to return to her

never to return to her native land

is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the early nineteenth century

Author: Osamu Dazai

ISBN: 9780571322831

But for all his brilliance

A Town Like Alice Okri Ben never to return to her'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language remarkable' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous