LiteratureBook · 2019
How We Disappeared
Jing-Jing Lee
In 2000, twelve-year-old Kevin hears his grandmother's deathbed confession and starts digging; the novel sets his search against Wang Di's wartime years in a Japanese military brothel. Longlisted for the Women's Prize; written in English.
Why you should read this
This is a dual-timeline novel that sets wartime Singapore under Japanese occupation against a present-day story, built around a chapter of the occupation that Singapore's own war narrative has been slow to address. Best for readers of historical fiction who want the history to carry real documentary weight.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 2019
- Themes
- ContemporaryEast AsianFiction
