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Author: Catherine Lim Publisher: Orion ISBN: 1409138356 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
An exotic, beguiling love story set in 1950s Singapore. 'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left? A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could not tell where innocence ended and seductiveness began, and were charmed by both.' One morning in Singapore more than fifty years ago, The Venerable One - a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren - takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act based on popular gossip - about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives. Is he not too old? Is she not too young? Are their worlds not too far apart? With characteristic verve and wit, Catherine Lim traces the struggles of an unusual couple through the jungle of human quandaries and predicaments created by the force of tradition, and celebrates the ultimate triumph of an even more extraordinary force - love.
Author: Catherine Lim Publisher: Orion ISBN: 1409138356 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
An exotic, beguiling love story set in 1950s Singapore. 'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left? A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could not tell where innocence ended and seductiveness began, and were charmed by both.' One morning in Singapore more than fifty years ago, The Venerable One - a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren - takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act based on popular gossip - about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives. Is he not too old? Is she not too young? Are their worlds not too far apart? With characteristic verve and wit, Catherine Lim traces the struggles of an unusual couple through the jungle of human quandaries and predicaments created by the force of tradition, and celebrates the ultimate triumph of an even more extraordinary force - love.
Author: Catherine Lim Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited ISBN: 9789814346238 Category : Love stories Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
One morning in Singapore a respected, Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives.
Author: Tamara S. Wagner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
Presents a thematic analysis of the English-language novels of Malaysia and Singapore focusing upon the ways that occidentalism and orientalism interact, influence, shape, and redefine each other. This book focuses on the central place that commerce and monetary values have in these works.
Author: Andrew Hock Soon Ng Publisher: McFarland ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 256
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"Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and Gothic writings of specific Asian nations. The essays of Part One demonstrate flexibility in adopting divergent. Part Two evokes Gothic as theoretical framework from which to interrogate writings of Asian-American authors. Part Three studies Gothic tradition in national literatures of China, Japan, Korea, and Turkey"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Robert Glancy Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408852209 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories - of those around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print**.In the wake of the accident Frank begins to piece together his former life - and his former self. But the picture that emerges, of his marriage, his family and the career he has devoted years to, is not necessarily a pretty one. Could it be that the terms and conditions by which Frank has been living are not entirely in his favour***?In the process of unravelling the knots into which his life has been tied, he learns that the devil really does live in the detail and that it's never too late to rewrite your own destiny.*apparently quite a serious one**words that no one ever reads*** and perhaps never have been
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