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Lillian Ng was born in Singapore and now lives in Australia where she is a practising obstretrician and gynaecologist in Sydney.
Her first novel SILVER SISTER was runner-up for the Angus & Robertson/Bookworld Prize in 1993 and won the Human Rights Award in 1995.
SWALLOWING CLOUDS is her second novel.
Syn, a young Chinese woman, believes her fate in a previous life was being punished for adultery by being drowned. Stranded in Sydney, she finds work in a butcher's shop where she has an intense and dangerous sexual relationship with the owner. Are her past and present lives coming together?
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140269932
- ISBN 13 9780140269932
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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