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The medusa tree

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A novel of the Dutch East Indies through the eyes of two Eurasian women. One is Gerda, a wealthy widow whose expertise in tennis saved her from Japanese internment in World War II. The other is Fan, wife of a …

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A novel of the Dutch East Indies through the eyes of two Eurasian women. One is Gerda, a wealthy widow whose expertise in tennis saved her from Japanese internment in World War II. The other is Fan, wife of a prisoner of war and mother of a baby daughter, whom Gerda protects. The women enter into a lesbian relationship and after the war move to California. Narrated by Fan's daughter. A first novel.

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