SISTERS UNDER THE RISING SUN
In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again.
Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed.
After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
HEATHER MORRIS
Native of New Zealand, now she resident in Australia. For several years, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in the US. In 2003, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who 'might just have a story worth telling'. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Their friendship grew and Lale embarked on a journey of self-scrutiny, entrusting the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her. Heather originally wrote Lale's story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
MORRIS HEATHER
Es una guionista neozelandesa residente en Australia. Estudió trabajo social y guion cinematográfico, trabajó como guionista, y uno de sus textos fue seleccionado por la Academia. En 2003, de forma casual, entró en contacto con Lale Sokolov, un octogenario que había sido prisionero en Auschwitz y que, tras haber fundado una familia y un negocio en Australia, quería contar su experiencia como tatuador y prisionero en el campo de concentración y cómo allí conoció al amor de su vida. De la historia de Lale y Gita nació El tatuador de Auschwitz, uno de los mayores fenómenos editoriales del año 2018 en todo el mundo, que ha conmovido y emocionado a millones de lectores en más de cincuenta países.
Del interés que despertó uno de los personajes, Cilka Klein, y de la pasión investigadora de Heather, surgió El viaje de Cilka. Las tres hermanas es su tercera novela.
