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Bookmark This! Women, war and what it takes to remember

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Join Life reporters Toh Wen Li (left) and Olivia Ho (right) in this new monthly podcast by The Straits Times, in which they talk about sizzling reads and titles in the headlines.

In this episode, they look at women and memory in two new books – New York novelist Siri Hustvedt’s Memories Of The Future, about a woman named S.H. who moves to New York; and Singaporean Lee Jing-Jing’s devastating historical novel How We Disappeared, about comfort women in World War II Singapore.

Subscribe, like and rate Bookmark This! on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGg iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXN Google podcasts: http://str.sg/oeLG Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg

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