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Jan 2, 2024 · Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations.
Jan 4, 2024 · 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.
Jan 2, 2024 · A chilling exploration of the costs of human weakness and desire, in a compelling and vividly wrought historical context. In World War II Malaysia, a woman discovers her pre-war miscalculations have ruined her life. In twinned story streams beginning in the mid-1940s and 10 years earlier, Chan traces the experience of the Alcantara family ...
Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war, the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake.
Jan 2, 2024 · Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations.
Jan 4, 2024 · Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, THE STORM WE MADE is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake.
Jan 2, 2024 · “The Storm We Made” opens in 1945 in Japanese-occupied Malaya where, despite the hard-won downfall of British rule, hopes of a “better colonizer” have been dashed. Boys are being forced...
Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of THE STORM WE MADE (coming Jan. '24), a highly-anticipated novel about the unlikeliest of spies - a discontent mother and wife in 1930s British Malaya who unwittingly ushers in the worst, most violent war her country has ever seen.
Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake.
Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction—and she will do anything to save them. Told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made spans years of pain, triumph, and perseverance.
