The Song of Silver Frond

The Song of Silver Frond
Author: Catherine Lim
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409138356

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.

The Song of Silver Frond

The Song of Silver Frond
Author: Catherine Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Love stories
ISBN: 9789814346238

One morning in Singapore a respected, Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives.

Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004

Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004
Author: Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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.

Kaapse bibliotekaris

Kaapse bibliotekaris
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2004
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

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

Asian Gothic

Asian Gothic
Author: Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

"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.