The Scent of the Gods (Thorndike Large Print Popular Series) - Softcover

Cheong, Fiona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560543787 ISBN 13: 9781560543787

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 1992

Synopsis

A Singapore girl tells the story of growing up in her grandmother's household during the turbulent years of the sixties and seventies when communism was threatening her homeland

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Review

"Richly layered. . . . Cheong evokes not only the political friction [of Singapore] but also a family history built from equal parts of mythology, tradition, and rebellion."--"Kirkus Reviews"

"Charged and poetic. . . . A story exquisitely poised between the specific and the mythic, delicately narrated and profoundly resonant."--"Publishers Weekly"

"Charged and poetic. . . . A story exquisitely poised between the specific and the mythic, delicately narrated and profoundly resonant."--"Publishers Weekly""

"Richly layered. . . . Cheong evokes not only the political friction [of Singapore] but also a family history built from equal parts of mythology, tradition, and rebellion."--"Kirkus Reviews""

"Charged and poetic. . . . A story exquisitely poised between the specific and the mythic, delicately narrated and profoundly resonant."--Publishers Weekly

"Richly layered. . . . Cheong evokes not only the political friction [of Singapore] but also a family history built from equal parts of mythology, tradition, and rebellion."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Fiona Cheong is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of the novel Shadow Theatre.Leslie Bow is a professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1560543787
• ISBN 13: 9781560543787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 323