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Dearest Intimate (Paperback): Su-chen Christine Lim Dearest Intimate (Paperback)
Su-chen Christine Lim
R545 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R77 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From an award-winning Singaporean novelist comes a multi-layered tale about love, sisterhood, spousal abuse, and Cantonese opera in the lives of three generations of women--all set against the dramatic sweep of Singapore's development The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer Chan Kam Foong passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother's relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang before WWII and her desperate search for Dearest Intimate in Singapore. Her grandmother's reflections and letters to Dearest Intimate forces Xiu Yin to examine her marriage to an abusive husband and she plucks up the courage to leave him. A surprise encounter with her first love, a rising Cantonese opera singer, brings a period of calm and joy. But when Meng proposes marriage, Xiu Yin backs off and he leaves for Hong Kong. It takes three years of loneliness and letter writing before they reunite again.

A Bit of Earth (3rd ed.): Su-chen Christine Lim A Bit of Earth (3rd ed.)
Su-chen Christine Lim
R472 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Rice Bowl (3rd ed.): Su-chen Christine Lim Rice Bowl (3rd ed.)
Su-chen Christine Lim
R463 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R87 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Man Who Wore His Wife's Sarong 2017 (Paperback): Su-chen Christine Lim The Man Who Wore His Wife's Sarong 2017 (Paperback)
Su-chen Christine Lim
R282 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R51 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The River's Song (Paperback): Su-chen Christine Lim The River's Song (Paperback)
Su-chen Christine Lim
R622 R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Save R104 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The River's Song is a moving, lyrical novel which deftly weaves together the themes of love, South-East Asian music and culture, and the social and political consequences of urban modernisation. Ping, the daughter of a renowned folk musician in Singapore's Chinatown's, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances drive them apart. While Ping goes to university in America, Weng is sent to prison for his part in local protests. Many years later, Ping returns to a country transformed by prosperity. Gone are the boatmen and hawkers who once lived along the river. In their place rise luminous glass and steel towers proclaiming the power of the city state. Can Ping face her former lover and reveal the secret that has separated them for over thirty years?

A Monsoon Feast - Short Stories to Celebrate the Cultures of Singapore and Kerala (Paperback): Shashi Tharoor, Su-chen... A Monsoon Feast - Short Stories to Celebrate the Cultures of Singapore and Kerala (Paperback)
Shashi Tharoor, Su-chen Christine Lim, Jaishree Misra; Edited by Verena Tay
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Monsoon Feast comprises seven short stories by renowned writers from Kerala (India) and Singapore that provide deep insights on the various concerns and ways of life of both communities. The collection includes stories by well-known author Shashi Tharoor, Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author of 12 books, including The Great Indian Novel, and inaugural Singapore Literature Prize winner and popular author Suchen Christine Lim. A unique literary collaboration, A Monsoon Feast intimately connects the reader to the heart of two similar and yet different cultures. Across the seas, the winds blow between two lands, whispering back and forth what is seen, heard, tasted, smelt, felt in each place: the green trees, the tropical heat, the lush rain, the peoples of enterprise and culture, the aromas of different flavours and more. A Monsoon Feast is the point at which these winds intermingle, their conversation celebrating the best of what Singapore and Kerala have to offer.

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