Living With The Enemy

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Author: Pacita Pestaño-Jacinto

When the Americans declared war against the Japanese on December 9, 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the author, Pacita P. Jacinto, was newly-married to a doctor whose child she carried and she relished their independence in a perfect house with air plants in Otis Street in Pandacan, Manila.

The war, like all evil things, was unhoped for. Within three years, Pacita and her husband would be moving in and out of places in Manila to survive the occupation of the Japanese. She detailed the events as they unfold from that fateful night in December. In her diary, she also narrated how they tried to live normal lives, while interpreting other public matters critically. The result is a rich and intimate history of the Japanese Occupation of Manila from the point of view of a young, middle-class Filipina wife and mother.

ISBN: 9789712712168

Imprint/Category: Anvil Fiction and Literature • 0.190 kg • 7.9 × 4.8 in