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Breaking the Tongue Author: This brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Sio... more »
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A searing first novel--about a young Chinese man whose father is enamorated with the British colonial government just prior to WWII in Singapore--then the Japanese invade.
Received MANY great and well deserved reviews--I stayed up until past midnight to read it (shocking for me!)
Received MANY great and well deserved reviews--I stayed up until past midnight to read it (shocking for me!)
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> War