{"product_id":"murder-at-the-docks-hardcover","title":"Murder at the Docks - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1906, in the docklands of Hong Kong, seven-year-old Enid witnessed the murder of her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat moment would shape the rest of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrphaned by twelve and raised in the high noon of Empire, Enid grew up amid devastating loss, brittle pretence and a way of life blind to its own impending unravelling. As war swept across the Far East, she endured the unimaginable as a civilian prisoner under Japanese occupation, emerging alive but permanently scarred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer survival came at a cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurder at the Docks is not simply a story of violence or war. It is a story of silence-of a woman who lived through her family's tragedy and history's convulsions yet never spoke of them and of a grandson determined to understand what trauma, sacrifice and empire had left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the Far Eastern Empire, wartime internment camps and post-war Britain, Murder at the Docks is a deeply personal excavation of memory, resilience and pervasive silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51435772510431,"sku":"9781037124082","price":33.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Lne86AcMA79781037124082.webp?v=1790049530","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/murder-at-the-docks-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}