Marney Blom was interviewed by China Christian Daily to discuss how and why she wrote Shadow of the Sun:
“I wrote the book after finding the tiny, unsent, love letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother while he was a prisoner working on the Burma Railroad during WWII. He wrote these letters at great risk, knowing that if caught, he likely would be killed. These letters are not only his first-person account of the brutality of being a slave to the Japanese, but they reveal his real and powerful encounters with Jesus in the midst of horrific suffering.
It took me a number of years to write the book because I wanted to thoroughly research the event and the time period – to make the book historically and culturally accurate. Shadow of the Sun relives a time of history that so few know about. Therefore, I visited museums and archives in Holland and interviewed remaining survivors. At times I needed to push the book aside and stop writing, because it was very emotional to write about my family’s sufferings.”
To read the full interview, visit China Christian Daily here.