King Rat

......... pages that offer a glimpse into the lives of seven women during the war—lovers, mothers, and wives of the men in the camp. Perhaps at the time they decided it wasn’t appropriate for a shocking, one-of-a-kind novel about the struggle for survival to include equally shocking stories about women. But my father knew that war affects everyone and that no one—whether man, woman, or child—was spared.
... We were still too young to know that the invisible horrors of war also tear the soul apart, and that fear for loved ones or for oneself can cripple and trap you in a prison cell just as irrevocably as any bomb or barbed wire. At home or in Changi, villain or hero, man, woman, child—all fought the battle for survival. For life. Here, in this book, is their story—complete, just as my father described it. Dedicated to his memory and to all who have lived through their own, unique Changi.

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