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Borobudur in Central Java has been described as the eighth wonder of the world. It is the world's largest Buddhist temple, built out of 1.6 million blocks of worked volcanic stone and containing three miles of relief carvings and 504 statues of Buddha. Yet for 1,000 years it lay deserted in the jungle until it was rediscovered by none other than the famous Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign.

« Je souhaite en quelque sorte dresser le portrait de ma grand-mère, d’abord pour fixer son existence et pour ne rien oublier d’elle et parce que je considère aussi que le récit de sa vie est un discours sur le monde social, dans un environnement donné à un moment donné de l’histoire des femmes. »Quand Annie meurt brutalement, Zora hérite de ses journaux intimes et de ses carnets de voyage. Elle y découvre cette femme qu’elle aimait tant sous un autre angle. Elle enquête et fait entendre la voix des femmes de sa famille, d’une metteuse en scène, d’une spécialiste de la...