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Jing-Jing Lee

    Jing-Jing Lee tisse des récits qui explorent les liens complexes et les traumatismes historiques, en particulier dans le contexte de l'expérience asiatique. Son style littéraire se caractérise par une profonde profondeur psychologique et un langage poétique qui saisit la fragilité de l'existence humaine. À travers ses nouvelles et ses recueils de poésie, elle met au jour des histoires cachées, explorant les thèmes de la mémoire, de l'identité et de la quête de sens au milieu de l'adversité. Son œuvre offre aux lecteurs un aperçu profondément émouvant et stimulant du cœur humain.

    How We Disappeared
    • How We Disappeared

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
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      When her husband dies in the year 2000, Wang Di is forced into the solitary life of a widow in modern Singapore. But this new silence brings with it a surge of memories, taking her back to the brutal events of the Japanese invasion which altered the course of her life forever.Twelve-year-old Kevin is preoccupied with his own family worries; his father is suffering from depression, Kevin is being bullied at school, and his beloved grandmother's health is declining fast. And then, on her deathbed, she makes a surprising confession - one she never meant for Kevin to hear.Back in 1942, Wang Di is sixteen years old and forced into sexual slavery as a Comfort Woman. What she sees and experiences will haunt her present nearly sixty years later. Meanwhile, after his grandmother's death, Kevin sets about finding out the truth - a truth that will lead him to Wang Di; to the events of that brutal war and to a reckoning no one is prepared for and which can no longer be suppressed.They say the truth will set you free - but what if its horrors have been the very chains you have longed to escape from your whole life?

      How We Disappeared