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The storm we made
Chan, Vanessa (Novelist)2024
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Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonised Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fuijwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an "Asia for Asians." Instead, Cecily helped usher in an even more brutal occupation by the Japanese. Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction--and she will do anything to save them. Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake.
Main title:
The storm we made / Vanessa Chan.
Author:
Chan, Vanessa (Novelist), author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.©2024
Collation:
339 pages : map ; 24 cm
ISBN:
97813997125839781399712583978139971257697813997125839781399712583
Dewey class:
813.96
LC class:
PS3603.H355856
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
549871
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | CHAN | Onloan - Due: 20 Aug 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | CHAN | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 24 Jul 2024) |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | CHAN | Onloan - Due: 09 Aug 2024 |