Tanamera
Published on 28. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
736 pages
978-0-340-93832-4 (ISBN)
Description
Opulence. Invasion. Terror. And forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore.
'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy, its future as assured as it was busy. And those days were made even better when, as was inevitable, I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong and, against all unwritten canons of Singapore life, we became lovers.'
'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy, its future as assured as it was busy. And those days were made even better when, as was inevitable, I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong and, against all unwritten canons of Singapore life, we became lovers.'
Reviews / Votes
'An astonishing fictional debut . . . A great read' * <i>Daily Mail</i> * 'An exceedingly good book, and one of the can't put down variety . . . a winner' M M Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions * M M Kaye, author of <i>The Far Pavilions</i> * 'Noel Barber has always done everything in a big way, with style, panache and a dash of adventure. But he has never written a story of such dimensions, such a sense of history and imagination as this first novel . . . it is an intensely gripping and convincing story' * <i>Manchester Evening News</i> * 'Barber is a master' * <i>Mail on Sunday</i> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 55 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-93832-4 (9780340938324)
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Noel Barber has enchanted millions of readers with his six bestselling novels. In these powerfully exotic novels he drew upon his own experience as one of the leading foreign correspondents from the 40s to the 60s working on the Daily Mail. He was the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott, was stabbed five times while covering the wars in Morocco and was shot during the Hungarian uprising. He died in 1988.