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Jing-Jing Lee

Biography

Jing-Jing Lee

Jing-Jing Lee is the author of the novel, IF I COULD TELL YOU. Her poems have been published in Ceriph, Poetry Quarterly, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and MOVING WORDS 2011: A Poetry Anthology. Jing moved to Europe in her early 20s and started to pursue writing full-time. In 2011, she gained a Masters of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. She now lives in Amsterdam with her husband and is working on her second book of fiction.

Jing-Jing Lee

Books by Jing-Jing Lee

by Jing-Jing Lee - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, 17-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a “comfort woman.” After 60 years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. In the year 2000, 12-year-old Kevin is sitting beside his ailing grandmother when he overhears a mumbled confession. He sets out to discover the truth, wherever it might lead, setting in motion a chain of events he never could have foreseen.