Lucy Lumgrew up in Singapore and moved to England in 1970. She lives in London.
This is Singapore in the 1940s, a former British colony now living under the specter of the invading Japanese?the hungry worms crawling down from the north, as Lucy knows them?and fear floods the streets. Lucy's father, a kind-hearted and talented linguist, finds himself being used by the occupiers as a translator, and brings back terrifying stories of his merciless employers, which he confides to his daughter under the heavy teak table they use as a make-shift air raid shelter in the bedroom.
With a fresh and powerful voice,The Thorn of Lion Citybreaks the long silence of the Singaporean Chinese. Heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant, it speaks of the softly-spoken, redemptive love between a father and daughter.
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