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戰火肆虐，源自人心的駭人風暴席捲而來
1945年，一名少年在日軍占領下的馬來亞失蹤，讓一個家庭瀕臨瓦解。母親Cecily認為，家人如今承受的痛苦，都源自自己十年前的一個選擇。
曾經，她相信日本人承諾的「亞洲人的亞洲」，相信只要協助日本蒐集情報，就能終結英國殖民，迎來新的自由。隨著戰火蔓延，當她意識到這個理想迎來的不過是另一輪新的暴政，她深愛的人早已一一被捲入戰爭的深淵。
長子Abel被押往勞動營，在飢餓與恐懼中掙扎求生；長女Jujube為守護家人，被迫在殘酷現實裡長大；Jasmin則用孩子的童稚目光，理解這個已然失序的瘋狂世界⋯
馬來西亞作家Vanessa Chan陳惠珊，以家族命運映照國族歷史，刻畫二戰時期的馬來亞，寫下殖民、信念與愧疚，如何在一個家庭裡代代迴盪。那些看似出於希望的選擇、那些以愛為名的隱瞞與犧牲，終將在歷史的寂靜風暴中，一一現形。
A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII – and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her 15-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. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by 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 had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fuijwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an "Asia for Asians." Instead, Cecily helped usher in an even more brutal occupation by the Japanese. 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.
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.
作者介紹
Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of The Storm We Made, a national bestseller, a Good Morning America book club selection and BBC Radio 2 book club pick. The novel, her first, will be published in over twenty languages worldwide. Her other writing has been published in Vogue, Esquire, Electric Lit, and more.
