How we disappeared / Jing-Jing Lee.
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TextPublisher: London : Oneworld, 2020Description: 343 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786075956; 1786075954Subject(s): Singapore -- History -- 20th century -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: 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.
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize. Reprint. Originally published: 2019.
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.
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