"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her younger daughter, Jasmin, hides in a basement to avoid being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her older daughter, Jujube, who serves tea to 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, desperate to be more than a housewife in British-colonized Malaya, is lured into a life of espionage by the charismatic General Fuijwara. Mesmerized by a dream of an 'Asia for Asians,' she helps usher in a war, and with it, a new and more brutal occupier. Now, her family is on the brink of destruction--and she will do anything to save them"--Provided by publisher.
year: 2024
call number/section: 1000
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, malaysia, fiction, families, women spies, mother and child, missing children, betrayal, war stories, family life, mother-child relationship, malaya, history, british rule, 1867-1942, fiction, japanese occupation, 1942-1945, malaysia, historical fiction, war fiction