As a young translator, working for the Japanese during WW2, Lee saw Australian POWs marched through the Singapore streets. He wrote in his memoirs: 'The capture of thousands of their soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army will forever be seared into Australia's national memory, a disaster ...
All this unfolded in what I now know to call our last weeks. Within the action of this story, these memories mean little. After the first time Graham and I went to bed together, they are symbolically all of a piece. I could have written to you without including them; after all, the ...