How we disappeared
Lee, Jing-Jing
How we disappeared / Jing-Jing Lee - Toronto, Canada : Hanover Square Press , c2019. - 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a 'comfort woman.' After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. 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 never could have foreseen. Weaving together two time lines and two very big secrets, this stunning debut opens a window on a little-known period of history, revealing the strength and bravery shown by numerous women in the face of terrible cruelty.
English
Comfort women---Fiction
Last words---Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Villages---Fiction
Human trafficking----Fiction
Military offenses---Fiction
World War, 1939-1945----Fiction
Singapore---History----Fiction
Singapore---History---Japanese occupation, 1942-1945----Fiction
Historical fiction
FIC LEE
How we disappeared / Jing-Jing Lee - Toronto, Canada : Hanover Square Press , c2019. - 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a 'comfort woman.' After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. 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 never could have foreseen. Weaving together two time lines and two very big secrets, this stunning debut opens a window on a little-known period of history, revealing the strength and bravery shown by numerous women in the face of terrible cruelty.
English
Comfort women---Fiction
Last words---Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Villages---Fiction
Human trafficking----Fiction
Military offenses---Fiction
World War, 1939-1945----Fiction
Singapore---History----Fiction
Singapore---History---Japanese occupation, 1942-1945----Fiction
Historical fiction
FIC LEE