House of Kwa / Mimi Kwa.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733341137; 0733341136Subject(s): Kwa, Mimi | Kwa, Mimi -- Family | Families | Women journalists -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 070.92 Summary: Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations. 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Wundowie Adult Non Fiction | B/ KWA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111082170505 |
Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations. 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.
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