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- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
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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.They say the truth will set you free - but what if its horrors have been the very chains you have longed to escape from your whole life?
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How We Disappeared, Jing Jing Lee
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- Publicado en
- 2020
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- Título
- How We Disappeared
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Jing Jing Lee
- Editorial
- Oneworld
- Publicado en
- 2020
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1786074125
- ISBN13
- 9781786074126
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Tema histórico, Novelas históricas, Guerras, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Asia
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.They say the truth will set you free - but what if its horrors have been the very chains you have longed to escape from your whole life?