Synopsis
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.
Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.
Not only are the Blacketts caught up in the events—their friends, enemies and many individuals are, too. Singapore at this historical watershed has never been so faithfully and passionately recreated.
Release date: November 24, 2010
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Print pages: 584
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