Sarong secrets : of love, loss and longing / Lee Su Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Su Kim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peranakan (Asian people)--Fiction.

Peranakan (Asian people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pure reading pleasure from start to finish ... bitter-sweet, light and delicate as the kebaya, spiced with the tang of sambal belachan. From the author of the award-winning bestseller Kebaya Tales comes yet another amazing collection featuring the colourful world of the babas and nyonyas. In Sarong Secrets, Su Kim tells more tales of passion and unfulfilled love, of innocence lost, greed and betrayal, of loneliness and the search for a sense of belonging - all of which harken to the unique Peranakan culture, a heritage teetering on the brink of extinction. Filled with humour, wit and vivid det

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Babas and Nyonyas; About the Sarong; Scarlet Revenge; Innocence; An English Afternoon Tea; Five Cents Bigger than Bullock Cart Wheel; Heaven Has Eyes; Frangipani; The House of Smells and Noises; Freedom in a Cage; The Tenant Upstairs; The Collector; Lost in the USA; No More Roses; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9789814516815

9814516813