Cloistered War : Behind the Convent Walls During the Japanese Occupation

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ISBN: 9789812328144
Authors: Maisie Duncan
Publisher: Times Editions
Date of Publication: 2004-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
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A Cloistered War is a coming-of-age memoir set in Malaya before and after World War II. Maisie Duncan brings us back to the delightful times of curry tiffins, porcelain dolls, Cantonese amahs, and (not-so-delightful) castor oil Sundays. This happy state of affairs changes dramatically when the author's mother dies and the author remarries. Maisie and her siblings are sent away from the family home to CHIJ insitutions and Christian Brothers' schools, where they spend the next 14 years of their youth traversing Malaya as boarders in these cloistered worlds.
 

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