Haunted by the secrets of her father's Asian past, Gail Lim returns to Malaysia to unravel the mysteries of her parents' lives and her father Matthew's relationship with Ani, the other woman in his life, with whom he shared a childhood growing up under the shadow of war and the Japanese occupation. [...]
2005: In the midst of a cold Montreal winter, a Cambodian woman, known only to us as 'Janie', separates from her husband and son. She takes refuge in the apartment of her friend, the neurologist Hiroji Matsui, but one day he leaves the Brain Research Centre where they are both employed and disappear[...]
The award-winning Canadian novelist joins Granta with a powerful and starkly beautiful novel about Cambodia - an extraordinary act of empathy for those who suffered under the Khmer Rouge.[...]
Onko toista ihmistä mahdollista tuntea? Matthew ei koskaan puhunut tyttärelleen Gailille lapsuudestaan Borneossa. Ei sen idyllistä eikä ystävyydestään Ani-nimisen tytön kanssa. Niin ikään hän on pitänyt omana muistonaan isänsä häpeällisen kohtalon sodanaikaisessa Sandakanissa. Nyt Ga[...]