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The Orchid Tree, by Siobhan Daiko

The Orchid Tree, by Siobhan Daiko

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A coming-of-age story set against the background of conflict and changing values in society.

Fifteen-year-old Kate Wolseley lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the expatriate community. But when the Japanese take over the colony in December 1941, she's interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Forty miles away, in Macau, Sofia Rodrigues' suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to dinner, an event that leads to a breach between Sofia and her controlling half brother, Leo. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and starvation, Kate befriends 17-year-old Charles - who's half Chinese - and they give their hearts to each other under the orchid tree. Can their love survive the war? In December 1948, Kate returns to Hong Kong, determined to put the past behind her. Sofia dreams of leaving Macau and starting a new life, and she won't let anyone, not even Leo, stop her. A young Englishman, James, becomes the link between Kate and Sofia. The communist-nationalist struggle in China spills over into the colony, catapulting the protagonists into the turmoil with disastrous consequences.

The Orchid Tree, by Siobhan Daiko

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #72287 in Audible
  • Published on: 2015-06-03
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Original language: English
  • Running time: 510 minutes
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. This was no summer camp! By libra mcl The Orchid Tree is a thoroughly enjoyable recreational novel. This, despite the subject matter of the Japanese internment camp in Stanley, which the author has obviously researched extensively. She describes the fauna and flora with expertise, and occasionally brings realism to her text : "The pungent sweaty-socks smell of the sub-tropical forest"......."dense clumps of vegetation hanging like interwoven ropes". The heroine, Kate, however, quickly realises that "no amount of beautiful scenery will compensate for my loss of freedom".The apparition of the tiger is distracting; yet all they can think of when it is caught and killed is the meat and who will enjoy it. There are several graphic descriptions of the food in the camp, which is grisly and far from appetising. Nor is the apparition of the bedbugs, in chapter 9, appealing. Ms Daiko describes them with detachment but precision, so that the scene can be easily visualised.Malaria strikes Kate's mother and the author cleverly shifts the scene to Macau, also suffering tribulations in the form of severe cold and shortages of food. We meet another major character Sofia. Her governess, Natalia and her brother Leo, are also significant. Leo's choice of Michiko as his bride is of note.Meanwhile, Charles and Kate grow closer, despite (or perhaps because of) the atrocities which occur in the camp. We are distracted from this by an introduction to the theme of collaboration (this time in Macau).The canvas is vast. Where the author could have gone off on enormous tangents, instead, she pulls the plot together so that we focus on Kate, and Charles, and in addition she introduces Sofia and James, and Sofia's family - the novel is a rich tapestry.The whole makes for entertaining reading, and like Ms Daiko's previous novel, "In Her Lady's Shadow", "The Orchid Tree" is more than a sketchy plot relying on trivial emotions. The author's attention to detail is apparent and she writes with authentic feeling about a place that she knows. At the same time she introduces the levity of fiction, an authoritative descriptive power and constant movement so that her readers are always seeking to find out the next event. There are also examples of wonderful humour, such as when she describes "the zing" that goes through her heroine when she is kissing. While I could identify with the feeling, the description made me laugh! There are several examples of juxtaposing plain words with elegant descriptions that make the book well worth reading. It is a book to read for entertainment. However, it may also be a pointer to provoke further reading around the subject of the concentration camps in the 2nd World War.Ms Daiko has produced a second stylish novel, and I wish her every success.Clare Leonard.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A future classic set against the backdrop of 1940s Hong Kong By reetpetite Set against the backdrop of 1940s Hong Kong,the Orchid Tree is a very rich and readable evocation of life during a little-documented chapter in the colony's history. It's the story of an established order collapsing and cultures clashing as new powers struggle for dominance during WW2. It's also a love story seen through the eyes of two very different young women - Kate and Sofia- whose progress we follow as they try to come to terms with the seismic changes happening around them. As Kate the privileged daughter of the old colonial order, is thrown into a brutal internment camp, Sofia, an exotic girl of Portuguese origin remains free but can't escape the grip of her shady relatives and their activities. Both girls struggle to survive in their own way and Kate's endurance is tested to the extreme in an unflinching portrayal of the infamous Stanley Internment Camp. There are lots of twists and turns to the plot which is helped along by a host of well-drawn and intriguing characters and the reader is left guessing and second guessing right up to the end and the only thing you can be certain about is that nothing will be the same again in post WW2 Hong Kong. A good read in so many ways.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. The hallmark of good story-telling: characters so vividly drawn that the reader is left wanting to know more about their lives By Naomi Ruth Robertson I was eagerly awaiting Siobhan Daiko's new novel "The Orchid Tree" after downloading and enjoying her short story "Fragrant Haven" which introduces one of the novel's main characters, James. In the same masterful way that Siobhan Daiko builds suspense within her novels, she also heightened my anticipation of "The Orchid Tree" by first introducing me to James and then releasing the novel that features him a couple weeks later.The research that Ms Daiko has conducted in order to write a novel about Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War is considerable, although I suspect that only someone who has spent her childhood and youth in Hong Kong and who has known and spoken to relatives and family friends who survived the Occupation could depict the experiences of her characters with such accuracy and poignancy. We suffer through the horrors of the internment camp with Kate, even as we maintain our curiosity about the enigmatic Sofia who remains technically free on Macau but is imprisoned by, for want of a better word, dysfunctional family. The literary device that Ms Daiko uses in interweaving the stories of these two young women is quite effective; when they (inevitably) meet after the war the reader is almost at a loss to know which young woman to identify with, as they are quite different, with only their strength and resilience in common.I would highly recommend this novel, as I would recommend to Ms Daiko an eventual follow-up on the characters in "The Orchid Tree". Each character is so vividly-drawn and likeable that by the end of the novel we, the readers, are left wanting to know more about their lives. For me, this is the hallmark of good story-telling, and Ms Daiko excels at this.

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