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The River''s Song

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By (author): Suchen Christine Lim

The River's Song is a moving, lyrical novel which deftly weaves together the themes of love, South-East Asian music and culture, and the social and political consequences of urban modernisation. Ping, the daughter of a renowned folk musician in Singapore's Chinatown's, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances drive them apart. While Ping goes to university in America, Weng is sent to prison for his part in local protests. Many years later, Ping returns to a country transformed by prosperity. Gone are the boatmen and hawkers who once lived along the river. In their place rise luminous glass and steel towers proclaiming the power of the city state. Can Ping face her former lover and reveal the secret that has separated them for over thirty years? See more
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Product Details
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: Aurora Metro Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781906582982

About Suchen Christine Lim

Suchen Christine Lim is one of Singapore's most distinguished writers. In 1992 her third novel Fistful of Colours was awarded the Inaugural Singapore Literature Prize. A Bit Of Earth (2000) her fourth novel and a short-story collection The Lies That Build A Marriage (2007) were shortlisted for the same prize. Awarded a Fulbright grant in 1997 she is a Fellow of the International Writers' Program University of Iowa and the first Singapore writer honoured as the university's International Writer-in-Residence in 2000. Since then she has also held writing residencies in Myanmar the Philippines South Korea and at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2011 she was the Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. In 2012 she won the South East Asia Write Award. In the UK she has regularly been writer in residence at the Arvon Foundation.

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