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Betrayal Fiction Families Fiction Familles Malaisie Romans, nouvelles, etc Malaisie occidentale Histoire 1867-1942 (Domination britannique) Romans, nouvelles, etc Malaisie occidentale Histoire 1942-1945 (Occupation japonaise) Romans, nouvelles, etc Malaya Fiction Missing children Fiction Mother-child relationship Fiction Trahison (Morale) Romans, nouvelles, etc Women spies FictionChan, Vanessa
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 0000
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChanBarker, Susan
Summary: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humor and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl. The book then moves to 1969 where Frances, Christopher's Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Swan 2009