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A cloistered war : behind the convent walls during the Japanese occupation / Maisie Duncan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Maisie, 1931- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duncan, Maisie, 1931-.
- Duncan, Maisie.
- Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (Singapore)--History.
- Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (Singapore).
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Malaya--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
- Malaya.
- Singapore--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Set in Malaya before and after World War II, A Cloistered War is a moving coming-of-age memoir of Maisie Duncan, granddaughter of Captain Vaz, a well-known Penang identity. When Maisie's mother passes away and her father remarries, the world that she knows-delightful times of curry tiffins, porcelain dolls, Cantonese amahs, and (not-so-delightful) castor-oil Saturdays-falls apart as all the children are sent away from the family home to CHIJ Institutions and Christian Brothers' schools. Maisie and her sister spend the next 14 years of their youth traversing Malaya as boarders in these cloister
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 981-4677-63-9
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