The Great Reclamation
'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller
(Sprache: Englisch)
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country
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Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country
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'Extraordinary . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
'Alive to the beauty and mystery of the natural world as well as the human heart'
Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers
'What a marvellous novel'
Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning
'An intimate love story and an epic historical tale that is sure to be read for years to come'
Julie Otsuka, author of The Buddha in the Attic
'Ah Boon's story will stay with me for a long time'
Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept
On a quiet moonlit night, Ah Boon, young and terrified, takes his first trip out to sea in his father's fishing boat - a rite of passage for the boys of the kampong. As the air hums and the wind howls across the waves, a mysterious, impossible island materialises in the darkness; an island, bountiful with fish, that Ah Boon soon learns only he has the ability to find.
But this is only the beginning of the story, and as Ah Boon grows up, alongside Siok Mei, the spirited girl he has fallen in love with, he finds himself caught in the tragic sweep of Singapore's history. When the Japanese army invades, the resistance rises, and their small nation hurtles towards rebirth, the kampong and the impossible islands that surround it are thrown into jeopardy, and the two friends must decide who they will become - and what they are willing to give up.
Autoren-Porträt von Rachel Heng
Born and raised in Singapore, Rachel Heng is the author of the novel SUICIDE CLUB, which was translated into ten languages worldwide and won the Gladstone Library Writer-In-Residence Award 2020 and is being developed for TV by Hulu, eOne and Annapurna. She has appeared in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's and elsewhere. Her non-fiction has been listed among Best American Essays' Notable Essays and has been published in The Rumpus and The Telegraph. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rachel Heng
- 2023, 464 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Headline
- ISBN-10: 1035406330
- ISBN-13: 9781035406333
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The Great Reclamation is an extraordinary achievement - an epic love story set in a world at war within and without itself. Every page pulses with mud and magic. I loved it Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
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