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02301aam a2200301 4500 001 35DDCDC0401411EFAD2B530A4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240712010045 020 $a 1797166263 020 $a 9781797166261 040 $d SILO 100 $a Chan, Vanessa, 245 $a The storm we made 250 $a Unabridged audio. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Simon & Schuster Audio $c 2024. 300 $a 9 audiodiscs (11 hr.) ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Read by Samantha Tan. 520 $a A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWIIand the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family. 520 $a Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantaras 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. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. 520 $a Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth. 520 $a 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 destructionand she will do anything to save them. 520 $a 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. 655 $a Audiobooks. 655 $a FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust. 008 s2024 941 $a 1 952 $l RUPC135 $d 20240712012917.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=35DDCDC0401411EFAD2B530A4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search