A Different Sky

Informationen zum Autor Meira Chand Klappentext Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; Raj, fresh off the boat from India, wants only to work hard and become a successful businessman. As the years pass, and the Second World War sweeps through the east, with the Japanese occupying Singapore, the three are thrown together in unexpected ways, and tested to breaking point. Richly evocative, A Different Sky paints a scintillating panorama of thirty tumultuous years in Singapore's history through the passions and struggles of characters the reader will find it hard to forget. Zusammenfassung Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this in between island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Meira Chand, Chand Meira
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780099546245
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954624-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical / World War II, Family life fiction, Singapore, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Generational sagas, FICTION / Multiple Timelines