Rating: 3.50 (1 ratings)
First published 1984
In the South Pacific during World War II, a young Marine discovers passion with a beautiful Tonkinese woman amid the chaos of military life. Nurse Nellie navigates her own romantic entanglements with Emile De Becque, a French planter who has made this tropical world his home. Around them, soldiers and sailors pass their days between military duties and stolen moments of connection, all while the war rages across the Pacific islands. The military personnel find themselves caught between their duties as warriors and their desires as human beings seeking love and meaning in an exotic paradise far from home. Each character must reconcile the brutal realities of warfare with their longing for intimacy and belonging in this foreign landscape.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: South Pacific, Tonkin
Period: World War II
384 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Fawcett Books
Content warnings: war