A Message for Nasty

A Message for Nasty
Roderick Fry
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NZ$ 40.00
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 140mm - 282pg
30 Aug 2022 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9781927249840
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Marie Broom and her husband Vincent enjoy a pleasant life on Hong Kong Island. Vincent is a New Zealander. Marie is Portuguese-Chinese. Married for ten years, the couple have four adored children - daughters aged 9, 8 and 5 and a baby son of 14 months. Vincent' s job as a marine engineer often takes him overseas. It is December 8, 1941. In a few hours their lives will change forever. Marie wakes in the family' s home to the sound of bombs falling. Within days, Japanese soldiers have invaded the island. Their building is surrounded. Most British residents are rapidly interned. Vincent is in Singapore. Soon he too is trapped as that island comes under attack. Marie, the children and the family' s four live-in amahs must face the increasingly brutal Japanese occupation alone. This page-turning novel, based on a true story, tells of Marie' s struggle to save her children from danger, disease and starvation and Vincent' s incredible attempt to rescue them. Legendary figures appear, from New Yorker correspondent Emily Hahn to Lindsay Ride, founder of British Army Aid Group. But at its heart this is a story of the hard and heart-wrenching decisions that must be made in wartime.
"The most chilling depiction of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the particular horrors facing young women unprotected I have ever come across" --Peter Graham, author of So Brilliantly Clever "An emotional journey as powerful as any of the great war classics, but even more powerful because it is true" --Sam Trubridge "Very well written and researched - I read the whole book in two sittings. It would make a good film' --Tony Banham, hongkongwardiary. com, author of We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong' s Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45
Roderick Fry is a prize-winning New Zealand designer and essayist, who has worked in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. From 1999, he retraced the route taken by his maternal grandfather across China during the Second World War to rescue his family in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, beginning a project to write a historically accurate novel based on their incredible story. He lives in Paris and is founder and creative director of sustainable design company Moaroom.

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