The
Seventh Moon by Marius Gabriel
One
thing about having dreary weather it makes me feel like reading. The
book I have just finished reading was very interesting because it
touched on a part of history and a part of the world that I know
little about.
The
Seventh Moon basically is a story of an Eurasian lady( half Chinese
and half English), called Francine living in Malaya married to an
English manager of a tin mine. It is 1941 the start of the Japanese
invasion of Malaya in World War 2. They have a small child Ruth.
The
family get split up and the Francine and Ruth flee to Borneo with the
help of English army officer. Pursued be the Japanese invaders the
child is left in the jungle with a friendly native tribe to save her
life while the two adults decide to make it to safety by trudging out
through the jungle. When the war ends all traces of Ruth have
vanished and years of searching bring a conclusion that Ruth died in
the jungle during the war
Fast
forward 50 years and Francine is now a wealthy woman .A young woman
Sakura appears at Francine's door in New York saying she is Ruth
the child left in the jungle. But is she? The rest of the book will
keeps you reading to find out the answer to that question.
Some
of the story sounds not possible to me but it is well written and I
couldn't put it down until I had finished it.
The
title *The Seventh Moon” comes from a Chinese belief that those who
died without proper ceremony come back in the seventh moon to haunt
the living.
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