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5.0étoiles sur 5 Divided Loyalties, Nov. 14 2008
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This novel - a finalist for the prestigious Booker Prize - is one sizzler of a modern tale involving intrigue and adventure. It takes place in old-colonial Southeast Asia in the 30s and 40s. The story covers the life of a British-Chinese trader family and its various members as they try to establish themselves in a fast-changing society. Young Philip Hutton, offspring of a western-oriental marriage, chooses an interesting path that takes him into the world of Japanese culture through a friendsip with a diplomat named Endo. Through learning martial arts from this man, Philip forms a deep bond of affection that often conflicts with his father's values. Mr. Hutton Senior, a father who is rarely around because of his business interests, discovers that Philip has developed a strong reliance on Endo's view of a future world, and this bothers him. The boy's late mother has left him with a tenuous connection with the Chinese community in Malaya, which only further confuses the issue of where his affinities lie. All this radically changes when the Japanese Imperial Army invades the Malayan coast in late 1941. The Hutton business concerns and family holdings are destroyed. Philip, by this time a young man, sides with the Japanese occupying forces and, because of his fluency in Japanese, becomes a facilitor for Endo who is now the local governor and lives on an island once owned by the Huttons. It is this part of the narrative where Philip, collaborating in order to minimize the damage and injury to civilians, is forced to make some very risky compromises. This is a time when the future of family and friends is held in the balance and sometimes found wanting. As brothers, sisters and father turn on each other, Philip finally chooses to step out and make the courageous decision to resist the cruel Japanese occupation. The reader should look for that defining moment in the story when father and son become reconciled in their willingness to sacrifice their lives for each other's safety. The presence of rain is a very significant metaphor in this book that describes the power of love to remove the stain of fear and hatred borne out of misunderstanding. It is the gift that removes the stigma of guilt and allows life to start afresh.
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