by James Clavell · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401491184
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«Rey de las ratas» is the novel by James Clavell, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (443 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in a Japanese concentration camp in Singapore during the final months of World War II. The novel follows the Allied prisoners living together in extreme conditions and shows how ingenuity, bartering and power relations become tools of survival, while moral boundaries among the inmates blur.
This edition belongs to the Jet collection from Plaza & Janés (number 118) and is the Spanish translation of the original novel King Rat.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction seeking a story of survival and moral dilemmas.
Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, known as James Clavell, was a British and American writer, filmmaker and a British Army officer during the Second World War. He is best known for his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television and film adaptations.
