Francesca Rhydderch

The Rice Paper Diaries (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hong Kong,1940. When newly wed Elsa Jones, fresh out from Wales, loses her first baby, she is torn apart by grief and homesickness. War is coming closer - Allied soldiers start to appear on the streets and there are bomb shelters in downtown Wan Chai - but Elsa barely notices. Then the Japanese invade. After a humiliating defeat, European and American civilians are rounded up and taken to an internment camp on the south of the island. Now Elsa and her husband, Tommy, are faced with the task of surviving in a hostile environment where there can be no secrets. Told from the intimate perspectives of Elsa, Tommy, their Chinese amah, Lin, and daughter, Mari, The Rice Paper Diaries movingly brings to life the dramatic events in wartime Hong Kong, and lays bare the tragedies as well as the joys of coming home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seren
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781720523
• Artikelnr.: 38410102

Autorenporträt

Francesca Rhydderch's debut novel The Rice Paper Diaries was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2014. Francesca was also shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and her stories have been widely puyblished and broadcast on Radio 4.