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Witty, hip, engrossing -- and utterly astonishing both in breadth of feeling and depth of intelligence: one of the strongest and most original works of the year.
"The Wall Street Journal"
A milestone.
"The New York Times Book Review"
A gripping story...
"The Economist"
A novel of distinction almost indecently accomplished for a twenty-three-year-old.
Larry Beinhart
author of "American Hero" (filmed as "Wag the Dog)"
Hwee Hwee Tan is a child-genius and Nobel laureate embryo.
"The New York Times Book Review"
Tan's prose resembles that of British writers like Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby....A promising, original debut.
"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
Tan digs through the irony to get at her characters' buried secrets -- their "foreign bodies" -- making us care about these precocious, clueless border-crossers.
"Publishers Weekly"
Tan's lucid and wide-ranging first novel is a memorable portrait of disenchanted and feckless youth, a narrative that gains indelible resonance as the plot unfolds....This seductive novel moves with furious grace to a transcendent conclusion.
Chuck Wachtel
author of"Joe the Engineer" and "The Gates"
The world the narrators of this extraordinary novel inhabit -- ours, now -- tries to deny them the knowledge of how much it injures them just to live in it. In voices that are lightning fast and sharply observant, that are as uncertain as they are wise, that dare to be funny even when they should not be, they struggle to take back the meaning of their lives. This -- in our particular moment in human history -- makes them heroes, and makes their story a great pleasure to read.
"The New York Times Book Review"A gripping story...
Exploring the chasm between Singapore's pop culture and traditional values, the friends' Gen-X cynicism and their gnawing hunger for direction and meaning, Hwee Hwee Tan delivers a powerful novel of clashing cultures and swirling spiritual quests, in which the wit is as sharp and unafraid as the insight it offers.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mei, a young Singaporean lawyer, receives a call from Andy, her English boyfriend. He's in jail, accused of masterminding an international soccer gambling syndicate. As Mei attempts to clear Andy's name, we learn of secrets buried in the past and the dissolute world of expats. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002593346
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