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01776cam a2200301 4500 001 7D9B69522B1111DE9FAE8B08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20181108012225 008 071017s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2007043036 020 $a 0312376405 020 $a 9780312376406 040 $d SILO $d SILO 100 1 $a Schroeder, Adam Lewis, $d 1972- 245 1 $a Empress of Asia : $b a novel / $c Adam Lewis Schroeder 250 $a 1st U.S. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $c 2008, c2006. 300 $a 409 p. ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a Originally published: Canada : Raincoast Books, 2006. 520 $a In 1942, young Canadian seaman Harry Winslow has just arrived in Singapore after the bombing of his ship, the Empress of Asia. Harry meets and falls madly in love with a vivacious young Englishwoman named Lily. After a hasty marriage, they are separated during the confusion of an air raid. Harry begins a desperate search for Lily across the Dutch East Indies, enduring hunger, illness, and unimaginable cruelty before finally being reunited. Fifty years later after the wartime events that changed his life forever, Harry travels to Thailand to begin the final adventure of his life--to retrace the journey of his Empress of Asia and to uncover the mystery that lies at the heart of the love of his life. 541 $d 20080618. 650 4 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Fiction. 655 4 $a Love stories. 856 2 $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007043036-d.html $3 gsafd. 856 2 $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007043036-b.html $3 gsafd. 941 $a 1 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720032214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7D9B69522B1111DE9FAE8B08A8D7520AInitiate Another SILO Locator Search