Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Seventh Moon by Marius Gabriel

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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