Book Summary. Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is , 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; year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; Raj, fresh . A Different Sky is a fully engaging experience. The protagonists are richly and deeply drawn, the sights, sounds, and smells of Singapore are gorgeously rendered, and the principal characters’ interwoven stories combine to form a compelling narrative. Chand’s extensive knowledge of Singapore’s eccentricities brilliantly colors the novel, adding an indelible layer of authenticity to the central Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · A Different Sky by Meira Chand. Maya Jaggi is swept up by a panoramic page-turner set in an emergent city-state. Maya Jaggi. Fri 1 Oct www.doorway.ru: Maya Jaggi.
A Different Sky is historical fiction at its most complex and engaging Chand balances the communist groupings, Japanese occupation and emerging nationalism with skill As history A Different Sky is engrossing: as fiction, highly enjoyable. Literary Review June This information about A Different Sky shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range. A Different Sky. Meira Chand. Harvill Secker, - Historical fiction - pages. 3 Reviews.
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 hard to forget. In her novel A Different Sky, Meira Chand references a communist riot taking place around a trolley bus in Courtesy of National Archives of. 19/11/ A Different Sky: The Other Side of the Looking Glass www.doorway.ru 10/ Singapore. A Different Sky () A Far Horizon () A Choice of Evils () House of the Sun () An article by Meira Chand in The Straits Times, 29 August
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