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When Sleeping Women Wake (Emma Pei Yin, Hachette)

Tuesday, 20 May 2025    Books+Publishing
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Expansive yet tightly plotted, When Sleeping Women Wake is a deeply empathetic novel that examines the devastation of war. Set in 1940s Hong Kong, it traces the city’s transformation from a British colony to a Japanese-occupied territory during World War II. The story is told through three alternating perspectives: Mingzhu,...

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