How we disappeared / Jing-Jing Lee.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Oneworld, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Whakaahuatanga: 352 pages ; 225 x 146mmISBN:- 9781786075963
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Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | LEE (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2187901 | |||
Fiction | Ōpunakē LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | LEE (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2187900 |
When her husband dies in the year 2000, Wang Di is forced into the solitary life of a widow in modern Singapore. But this new silence brings with it a surge of memories, taking her back to the brutal events of the Japanese invasion which altered the course of her life forever. Twelve-year-old Kevin is preoccupied with his own family worries; his father is suffering from depression, Kevin is being bullied at school, and his beloved grandmother's health is declining fast. And then, on her deathbed, she makes a surprising confession - one she never meant for Kevin to hear. Back in 1942, Wang Di is sixteen years old and forced into sexual slavery as a Comfort Woman. What she sees and experiences will haunt her present nearly sixty years later. Meanwhile, after his grandmother's death, Kevin sets about finding out the truth - a truth that will lead him to Wang Di; to the events of that brutal war and to a reckoning no one is prepared for and which can no longer be suppressed.
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