# The Seed and the Sower

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- Book: [The Seed and the Sower](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurens-van-der-post/the-seed-and-the-sower) ([The Seed and the Sower.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurens-van-der-post/the-seed-and-the-sower.md))
- Authors: [Laurens Van Der Post](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurens-van-der-post)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-876-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2002-01-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners - and their gaolers. In a battle for survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationships develop.