The Song Of Silver Frond

Author : Catherine Lim
Publisher : Orion
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409138358

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The Song of Silver Frond by Catherine Lim Pdf

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 : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114533669

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Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004 by Tamara S. Wagner Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Creative writing
ISBN : UOM:39015072800306

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Singapore Literature in English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : IND:30000107220935

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Kaapse bibliotekaris by Anonim Pdf

Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Author : Kar Tiang Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Businesspeople
ISBN : 9814062022

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Who's who in Singapore, 2006 by Kar Tiang Low Pdf

Author : Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015073670625

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Asian Gothic by Andrew Hock Soon Ng Pdf

"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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Singapore
ISBN : UOM:39015059959026

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Who's who in Singapore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN : UCBK:C094114227

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The Journal of Commonwealth Literature by Anonim Pdf

One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.

Author : Catherine Lim
Publisher : Orion
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409138341

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Following The Wrong God Home by Catherine Lim Pdf

A wonderful new novel from Catherine Lim - a modern love story of east meets west set in the author's native Singapore. Never before has Yin Ling appeared in such splendour. Perched in the bridal car with her mother-in-law to be, in layers of unaccustomed make-up, bedecked with the jewels of her fiance's family, she is about to marry into one of the richest and most influential clans in Singapore. But on the way to the ceremony the car passes through a destitute area of the city and Ling catches sight of a scene of death - a terrible omen for a bride. Instead of looking away, Ling stops the car and goes to look. It is a dead baby, abandoned. Despite her finery Ling picks it up. So begins Catherine Lim's new novel. Ling - poor, beautiful, an outstanding student and a poet - is to marry Vincent Chee, a rich PhD student from a very traditional, upper-class family. She will become a dutiful wife, not the existence of her dreams, but the Chees' money and influence is essential, for her mother has cancer and they cannot abandon a faithful old servant, Ah Heng Cheh. However, the mapping out of Ling's future doesn't proceed smoothly. Almost against her will, and through her poetry, she meets outspoken American professor, Ben Gallagher, who threatens to overturn everything. Ling must make her choice: east or west, head or heart. The birth of a son makes her moral predicament even more agonizing.

Author : Robert Glancy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Amnesia
ISBN : 9781408852200

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Terms & Conditions by Robert Glancy Pdf

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

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954686

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Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton Pdf

A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jeremy Whitley,Christina Rice,Ted Anderson,Heather Nuhfer,Katie Cook
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623027964

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My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic by Jeremy Whitley,Christina Rice,Ted Anderson,Heather Nuhfer,Katie Cook Pdf

Fiendship is Magic explores the secret origins of Equestria's greatest villains: Sombra, Tirek, Sirens, Nightmare Moon, and Queen Chrysalis!

Author : Edward Williams Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433074906565

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The Silver Wedding by Edward Williams Johns Pdf

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367122

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The Spitz Master by Gregory Clark Pdf

Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.

Author : Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780268105402

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The Inheritance of Haunting by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival. The driving forces behind Rhodes’s work include a decolonizing ethos; a queer sensibility that extends beyond sexual and gender identities to include a politics of deviance; errantry; ramshackled bodies; and forms of loving and living that persist in their wild difference. Invoking individual and collective ghosts inherited across diverse geographies, this collection queers the space between past, present, and future. In these poems, haunting is a kind of memory weaving that can bestow a freedom from the attenuations of the so-called American dream, which, according to Rhodes, is a nightmare of assimilation, conquest, and genocide. How love unfolds is also a Big Bang emergence into life—a way to, again and again, cut the future open, open up the opening, undertake it, begin. These poems are written for immigrants, queer and transgender people of color, women, Latin Americans, diasporic communities, and the many impacted by war.