Swallowing Clouds - Hardcover

Ng, Lillian

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ISBN 10: 0880016442 ISBN 13: 9780880016445

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 1999

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A modern Chinese woman who vividly recalls being drowned for adultery in a past life lives out her fate with abandon when she begins an erotically charged affair with a married butcher named Zhu.

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About the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

Stranded in Australia by the Tiananmen Square massacre and lacking money, Chinese student Syn becomes the concubine of a Chinese immigrant butcher, engaging in some heavy-duty sex. By an Australian gynecologist of Chinese origin.

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