Catherine Lim
Auteur de The Bondmaid
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Œuvres de Catherine Lim
Federal Short Stories Volume 2 1 exemplaire
Federal Short Stories Volume 1 1 exemplaire
Het gezicht van de godin 1 exemplaire
Lim, Catherine Archive 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1942-03-21
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Singapore
- Lieu de naissance
- Penang, Malaya
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 36
- Membres
- 530
- Popularité
- #46,961
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 86
- Langues
- 5
By sally tarbox on 10 April 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
A readable but forgettable novel set in 1980s Singapore. When Yin Ling - beautiful but poor, and betrothed to one of the most eligible men in the country - meets an outspoken American professor, she is torn... Indebted to her fiance for his financial support of her ailing mother and an elderly family servant, she feels trapped into marriage:
"The radiant god of love, high up in the vast blue sky, was stretching out his arms to her, but he had to reckon with his rivals, dark and serious-faced, because their realms of interest were not love but hard cash, property and status, duty to mothers and servants and sheer survival on a cold, hard planet - and a colder, harder bit of that planet called Singapore."
Set against the conformist society of Singapore, we follow Yin Ling's life over a few years... And never far away is the servant, Ah Heng Cheh, who has been with the family all her life and now, nearing the end, is trying to choose a home for the god she brought over from China. Many of Yin Ling's and Ben's furtive dates are taken with the servant in tow, seeking the elusive home. I thought this aspect all went on a bit, and Ben was frankly unbelievable. Yin Ling's poems also didn't help the narrative - I thought they were pretty dire and was not convinced that Ben would have committed them all to memory!
OK but nothing special.… (plus d'informations)