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House Of Kwa (Paperback)
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House Of Kwa (Paperback)
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The dragon circles and swoops ... a tiger running alone in the night ...
Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the
news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his
own daughter?
The collision was over the estate of Mimi's beloved Aunt Theresa, but
its seed had been sown long ago. In an attempt to understand how it had
come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa.
One of a wealthy silk merchant's 32 children, Mimi's father, Francis,
was just a little boy when the Kwa family became caught up in the
brutal and devastating Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World
War II. Years later, he was sent to study in Australia by his now
independent and successful older sister Theresa. There he met and
married Mimi's mother, a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed, chronic
mental illness. Soon after, 'tiger' Mimi arrived, and her struggle with
the past - and the dragon - began ...
Riveting, colourful and often darkly humorous, House of Kwa is an epic
family drama spanning four generations, and an unforgettable story
about how one woman finds the courage to stand up for her freedom and
independence, squaring off against the ghosts of the past and finally
putting them to rest. Throughout, her inspiration is Francis's late
older sister, the jet-setting, free-spirited Aunt Theresa, whose
extraordinary life is a beacon of hope in the darkness.
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