Janyre Tromp: Darkness Calls the Tiger, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"My adopted people have a story, a legend, that speaks of a time so dark, the sun will turn his back on the mountains and swallow the moon. It is then that the Sharaw--the Tiger-Man--will come prowling, exacting revenge on the darkness. But there is no great darkness in me or my world. It isn't always comfortable, but it has always been predictable ... until the soldiers came. In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Imperial Japan devoured entire Asian countries. It wasn't long until the only thing standing between the West and the Land of the Rising Sun was the mountains of Burma-Kailyn Moran's home by birth if not nationality. The daughter of a Baptist missionary and a native Kachin mountain woman, Kai witnesses her land engulfed by unspeakable atrocity, destroying her family and her hope. It is a time of darkness, and she and the other missionaries must choose which path to take--the way of forgiveness and home or the way of the Sharaw"--