Yesterday's Enemy - Tomadachi

By Zillah Williams

Subjects: New South Wales, Australia, Christian, WWII, World War II, Japanese culture, university, POW, Japanese, Australian culture, friendship, war, student, Cowra Breakout

Description: This novel for older teenagers and adults deals with coming to terms with the past, family and inter-race relationships and forgiveness. Janice, a first-year university student, is lonely until she meets Hisako, a Japanese girl. The two become friends but Janice's father remembers the Second World War. He was only a young man at the time of the Japanese breakout from the prisoner of war camp at Cowra, NSW, but he has other disturbing memories...