How we disappeared : a novel
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a "comfort woman." After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. In the year 2000, twelve-year-old Kevin is sitting beside his ailing grandmother when he overhears a mumbled confession. He sets out to discover the truth, wherever it might lead, setting in motion a chain of events he never could have foreseen.
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World War, 1939-1945 > Singapore > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Fiction. Women > Singapore > Fiction. Singapore > Fiction. |
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Historical fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781335953759
- Physical Description 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
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