
Pages
384
Rating
4.05
Year
1947
Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific and meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a great war. There is the young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl; Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque; and the soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropical paradise.
Endorsements
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction