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The Storm We Made : an unputdownable and heartbreaking World War Two novel - Vanessa Chan

The Storm We Made

an unputdownable and heartbreaking World War Two novel

By: Vanessa Chan

eBook | 4 January 2024

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Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it.

'Spellbinding . . . Combining cinematic grandeur with nuanced storytelling, The Storm We Made offers the hidden history that only fiction can reveal: the everyday yearnings of people surviving a brutal occupation, children trying to make sense of the unspeakable, and the search for love. I'll never forget this book' JESSAMINE CHAN

Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war and the power of familial love, for fans of Pachinko, All the Light We Cannot See and Wandering Souls.

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Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945.

Cecily Alcantara's children are in terrible danger.
Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.
Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for her own safety.
And her son, Abel, has disappeared without a trace.

Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.

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'A frank book that revels in moral complexity [and] an excellent examination of the way individuals get caught in the violence of history' ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN

'Devastatingly beautiful and extraordinary . . . Vanessa shines an evocative light on this piece of history. I'm going to be thinking about this one for a very long time' JESSICA GEORGE

'Dazzling . . . Vanessa Chan's characters face agonizing choices under the darkness of colonization and war, and yet she imbues them with an indelible spirit of resistance that never lets you forget the light. A fearless, gripping story by a writer to watch.' DAWNIE WALTON

'A phenomenon unto itself. This is no mere debut, but rather the summoning of a story buried so deeply in a nation that it could only surface with a talent great enough to do it justice.' MIRA JACOB

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