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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.
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A Bit of Earth (3rd ed.)
Su-chen Christine Lim
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Rice Bowl (3rd ed.)
Su-chen Christine Lim
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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 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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