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The Land Endures
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Land Endures
By I-hsin Wu
A forgotten photograph.
A Japanese amulet.
A mother's secret buried for half a century.
When a daughter unearths a small suite case while preparing her aging mother to emigrate, she opens more than a suite case - she opens a sealed life. Inside lies a photograph of a young Japanese soldier and an amulet inscribed with foreign words. What follows is a haunting confession that reshapes everything she thought she knew about her mother, and the limits of forgiveness.
Set against the devastation of wartime China in the 1930's, The Land Endures unfolds in two intertwined voices - a modern-day daughter searching for truth, and her mother, a seventeen-year-old girl who once sheltered an enemy soldier. Their alternating stories span survival, shame, and the fragile humanity that persists amid atrocity.
Tender, uncompromising, and unforgettable, this novel explores the inheritance of silence and the courage to break it.
Regimes may fall - but the land, and the human heart, endure.
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