Publisher's Synopsis
When Love Is Torn Apart by War... Chin-tein Lin makes a shocking decision. Although he is the son of a prominent Taiwanese family, he flouts social and cultural convention to marry the love of his life, Makiko Matsubara, a Japanese nurse whom he meets in Tokyo while he is at medical school. In 1940, he takes her back to Taiwan, and there they establish the Lin Clinic, and for a few years they and their daughter Mei-ya flourish. But World War II is about to change the world, and by 1945 Taiwan has been restored to China when Japan is defeated. The islanders look forward to a brighter future. Instead, they are massacred in the 228 Incident in 1947 and subjected to the brutalities of martial law under the Nationalist regime. Chin-tein pays a terrible price for an innocent mistake, bringing to his wife and their little girl the most unimaginable ordeals. Richly characterized, set against a vivid backdrop of terror-ripped Taiwan and war-torn Japan, Weeping Willow in the Mist is a riveting account of the cost of political conflict, a luminous love story, and an inspiring family saga.
