Guests of the Emperor

by Janice Young Brooks

Book Overview

Author Janice Young Brooks has published several historical novels, including Seventrees, Glory, and Guests of the Emperor, which was made into a television movie of the week entitled Silent Cries.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345361989
• ISBN13: 9780345361981
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

This is a must read!

I read this book years ago, loved it and have for years wanted to read it again. However, I could not remember the title or the author. I searched every used book store I came across and finally found it again recently and was thrilled. It is a wonderful story of courageous women. It is a must read for any WW2 history buff. As someone else stated, I, too, wish Steven Spielburg would make it into a movie. This story comes alive and the characters are so real that I found myself forgetting that I was reading a novel. I was there, living this story with the characters. I could not put the book down. This is one of the best books I have ever read and I will guard my new copy closely. I do not want to ever lose it again!

Guests of the Emperor

This book gives an excellent "feel" of women under stress and in appalling conditions in an internment camp during WWII. The characters are very realistically portrayed, and the book contained a great deal of historical fact. I found this book hard to put down. My only regret is that I cannot find a copy of the movie, "Silent Cries", based on Ms. Brooks novel.If you can find the book, buy it. You won't be disappointed. '

Little Known History Should Be Shared

Few people are really aware of the horrors that civilians experienced in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The author has done an outstanding job of presenting the daily struggles for survival that the women encountered as prisoners of the Japanese. It reads not only as a great novel, but shares a great history lesson as well. There was a made for TV movie based on the book, but it seems impossible to find a copy of it now. The story of these women should be required reading for American history students!

A Great Read

This was a very moving account of women in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the second world war. This was apparently very well researched book, using diaries of prisoners.The characters were well-developed and certainly believable. Readers who enjoyed Marge Piercy's "Gone to Soldiers" or the PBS series "A Town Like Alice" will find similar emotions and intensity here.Brooks also writes the mystery/humor series ("Grime and Punishment", "Silence of the Hams", etc) under the name of Jill Churchill.

The best book I have read yet.

This is a spellbinding novel of POW women in Indonesia during ww2. It describes their time in the prison camps with so much realism I sometimes felt like crying. This has become my most cherished book - one I can read over and over again without getting bored. I *highly* recommend this treasure!