When all the lights are stripped away / Sunil Nair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nair, Sunil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Mothers and sons--Fiction.

Mothers and sons.

Malaysia--Politics and government--Fiction.

Malaysia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When a letter arrives from his dying father, the life Anil has carefully constructed in the city shatters. He leaves his friends, his work as a cartoonist and a painter of movie posters, and even his pregnant girlfriend to journey home to the town he ran away from three years earlier after his mother died. There, in the short time left, he attempts to uncover his father's ambitious political plans for him and who the enigmatic man is. He stumbles upon his mother's secret collection of paintings and is forced to re-evaluate her art and what she taught him as a boy. All these discoveries pull hi

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Palace on Stilts; Illuminations; Pickled Snakes; The City; Cartoons; Father and Son; Hidden Legacies; The Second Adam; Justice For All; The Final Journey; The End, and a Beginning; Notes and Acknowledgements; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9789814398749

9814398748

OCLC:

798536124