How We Disappeared
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How We Disappeared is a haunting, visceral and profound meditation on trauma, memory and forgiveness. The novel’s dual narrative moves between contemporary Singapore and the 1942 Japanese invasion, weaving together two timelines, two life-altering secrets and two people who come together in their search for reconciliation with the past.
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How We Disappeared is a haunting, visceral and profound meditation on trauma, memory and forgiveness. The novel’s dual narrative moves between contemporary Singapore and the 1942 Japanese invasion, weaving together two timelines, two life-altering secrets and two people who come together in their search for reconciliation with the past.
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Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, 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 brothel. After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced there still haunts her.
And 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 could never have foreseen.
Weaving together two timelines and two very big secrets, this evocative, profoundly moving and utterly dazzling debut opens a window on a little-known period of history, and heralds the arrival of a thrilling new literary star.
Author: | Jing-Jing Lee |
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ISBN: | 9781786075956 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Pages: | 352 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Oneworld Publications |
Edition: | First |
Condition: | New |
Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
Jing-Jing Lee was born and raised in Singapore. She obtained a master's degree in Creative Writing from Oxford in 2011, and has since seen her poetry and short stories published in various journals and anthologies. Jing-Jing's novella, If I Could Tell You, was published by Marshall Cavendish in 2013 and her debut poetry collection, And Other Rivers, was published by Math Paper Press in 2015. How We Disappeared is her first novel. She currently lives in Amsterdam.
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