The Jacaranda Tree

His masterly account of a cruel flight from invasion. Paterson, manager of a small rice-mill, organizes the evacuation of a small English community when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson takes with him his Burmese mistress and her young brother. The rest of the party take along their prejudices, their pettiness and their squabbles, and a small enclave of English insularity moves north through Burma. Swiftly and inevitably the journey becomes a tragic working out of tension and insoluble conflict.

Published 1974.

Binding of book is intact. Moderate shelfwear, creasing and some foxing on covers of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Heavy foxing on insides of covers. Moderate foxing on certain pages.