How We Disappeared : LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - Jing-Jing Lee

How We Disappeared : LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - Jing-Jing Lee

Jing-Jing Lee

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  • Pages · 352 pages
  • Publication Date · 06/02/2020
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Longlisted for the�Walter Scott PrizeLonglisted for the HWA Debut CrownShortlisted for the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize'A heartbreaking but hopeful story about memory, trauma and ultimately love.'�New York TimesA beautiful story of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of�Min Jin Lee's�Pachinko�and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains SingSingapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military rape camp. In the year 2000, her mind is still haunted by her experiences there, but she has long been silent about her memories of that time. It takes twelve-year-old Kevin, and the mumbled confession he overhears from his ailing grandmother, to set in motion a journey into the unknown to discover the truth. Weaving together two timelines and two life-changing secrets, How We Disappeared is an evocative, profoundly moving and utterly dazzling novel heralding the arrival of a new literary star.

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