Straits Settlements, 1906: Emma has always dreamt of leaving small-town Malacca for the bright lights of Singapore, but now that her dream is finally within reach she wonders if her plan isn't too risky. For Emma harbours a secret that, if revealed, could unravel everything she holds dear. If anyone so much as suspects the truth, it will be the end of her, her future marriage to George, her entire life in Singapore. Emma settles in to married life to a man she barely knows, and there she must learn to navigate love, lies and her own identity in the bigoted society of British colonial Singapore. By the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of 'Others' Is Not A Race.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Burrough on the Hill
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-915310-37-8 (9781915310378)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Melissa De Silva was born in Singapore. She believes in the power of stories to foster empathy, allowing us to inhabit (momentarily) other lives, and understand more deeply what it means to be human. She is currently working on a novel and exploring the possibilities of filmmaking as a storytelling platform to explore the themes she is most drawn to: cultural alienation and cultural reclamation, loneliness and human kinship, memory, forgetting and loss.
