Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown
Shortlisted for the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize
'A heartbreaking but hopeful story about memory, trauma and ultimately love.' New York Times
A beautiful story of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains Sing
Singapore, 1942. 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.
Weaving together two timelines and two life-changing secrets, How We Disappeared is an evocative, profoundly moving and utterly dazzling novel heralding the arrival of a new literary star.
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Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Part One
- Wang Di
- October – December 1941
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- December 1941 – March 1942
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- March – August 1942
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- August 1942
- Part Two
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- August 1942 – May 1943
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- June 1943 – November 1944
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- November 1944 – August 1945
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- August 1945
- Kevin
- Part Three
- Wang Di
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- Kevin
- Wang Di
- Acknowledgements
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