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Convicts, Colonists and Kanaks is a powerful story about life in a French penal colony, which explores justice, freedom and colonial exploitation through the fates of convicts, colonists and Kanaks, while criticizing the dehumanizing system.
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a foot in the tur against God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
Leo N. Tolstoy, a master of literature, explores deep themes of human existence, morality, and society in his novels The Blizzard, Albert, Three Deaths, Father Sergius, The Master and the Servant, After the Dance, and Hadji Murad.
The novel is based on the writer's experiences in Shanghai during World War II and in the Civilian Collection Center in Lunghua, where he was interned from 1942 to 1945. Steven Spielberg made a film of the same name based on the script by Tom Stoppard.