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...novel begins in pre-World War II Ceylon, when the 14-year-old Lakshmi leaves her family and moves to rural Kuantan with her new husband, Ayah. Lakshmi bears six children, and the narrative voice soon jumps from Lakshmi to her children, who paint a divergent and complex portrait of their mother. Daughter Anna recounts how Lakshmi stood up to the Japanese invaders, started a business and hid her earnings, coated with bird droppings, at the top of a palm tree. "The Japanese made us all very resourceful," she relates, "but Mother was an undefeatable force." Sevenese, Lakshmi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Matriarch of Malaysia | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...respect for him. If what you described is the real Gates, I feel sorry for him. Someone who is blessed with such intelligence and wealth yet doesn't acknowledge that these gifts come from God is someone who is living a worthless life. ROZA AHMAD Kuantan, Malaysia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...While it was stated that the British were destroying everything in the path of their retreat, facts told a different story. To give one instance, it was announced they destroyed everything at Kuantan Airdrome on the east coast. Two days later the R.A.F. was sent over to bomb the undamaged hangars and the Japanese aircraft already using the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Whose Fault? | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

SINGAPORE--Japanese invaders have captured Kuantan, fortified town and air base on the east coast of Malaya 175 miles from Singapore, but British Imperials virtually have annthilated the latest Japanese landing parties on the steamy, west coast swamps, it was announced today...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/7/1942 | See Source »

Singora to Singapore. Dopesters in London guessed that although the British would fight hard in the extreme north, they would probably not send heavy reinforcements up, but would fall back into central Malaya, to insure themselves against being cut off by a cross-country spur from Kuantan. As for the defenses of Singapore itself, they had. as yet, no qualms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Way to Singapore | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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