Sundays with Sumiko
Author: Sumiko Tan
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789814642965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of Sumiko Tan's column that appeared fortnightly in The Sunday Times' lifestyle section.
Author: Sumiko Tan
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789814642965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of Sumiko Tan's column that appeared fortnightly in The Sunday Times' lifestyle section.
Author: Sumiko Tan
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789815081084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of Sumiko Tan's column that appeared fortnightly in The Sunday Times' lifestyle section.
Author: Stephanie Scott
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2020-06-23
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0385544715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion." --New York Times Book Review A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny, What's Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life--and her murder. In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Satō has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitarō's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of the circumstances that brought them together, she and Kaitarō fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will forever haunt her daughter's life. Told from alternating points of view and across the breathtaking landscapes of Japan, Stephanie Scott exquisitely renders the affair and its intricate repercussions. As Rina's daughter, Sumiko, fills in the gaps of her mother's story and her own memory, Scott probes the thorny psychological and moral grounds of the actions we take in the name of love, asking where we draw the line between passion and possession.
Author: Fook Kwang Han
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789814677622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 92. This book, which was first published in 1998, tells the story of his life from when the Japanese occupied Singapore in 1941 until 1998 when he was Senior Minister. Based on 13 exclusive interviews held over 30 hours, this book chronicles the events, people and political fortunes that were to shape Lee's view of the world, as well as the path he set for the transformation of Singapore. It delves into the choices he made, the political turnings he took, the insights gained and lessons learnt, some of which were expounded to the authors for the first time, with wit, wisdom, candor and vivid recollection. Written by three leading journalists from The Straits Times.
Author: Sumiko Tan
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789814827966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lynne Kutsukake
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 038554068X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Against the backdrop of occupied Tokyo, a young girl searches for her missing older sister, who has disappeared into the world of bars and dance halls. In the process, her story will become intertwined with those of others trying to make sense of their lives in a post-war world: a thirteen-year-old Japanese Canadian “repat,” a school teacher who translates love letters from American GIs, and a Japanese-American soldier serving with the Occupation forces. An emotionally gripping portrait of a battered nation, The Translation of Love mines this turbulent period to show how war irrevocably shapes the lives of people on both sides—and how resilience, friendship, and love translate across cultures and borders no matter the circumstances. Winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award
Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 038534970X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s extraordinary biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, poet, bon vivant, harbinger of Italian fascism. Gabriele d’Annunzio was Italy’s premier poet at a time when poetry mattered enough to trigger riots. A brilliant self-publicist in the first age of mass media, he used his fame to sell his work, seduce women, and promote his extreme nationalism. In 1915 d’Annunzio’s incendiary oratory helped drive Italy to enter the First World War, in which he achieved heroic status as an aviator. In 1919 he led a troop of mutineers into the Croatian port of Fiume and there a delinquent city-state. Futurists, anarchists, communists, and proto-fascists descended on the city. So did literati and thrill seekers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. After fifteen months an Italian gunship brought the regime to an end, but the adventure had its sequel: three years later, the fascists marched on Rome, belting out anthems they’d learned in Fiume, as Mussolini consciously modeled himself after the great poet. At once an aesthete and a militarist, d’Annunzio wrote with equal enthusiasm about Fortuny gowns and torpedoes, and enjoyed making love on beds strewn with rose petals as much as risking death as an aviator. Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s stunning biography vividly re-creates his flamboyant life and dramatic times, tracing the early twentieth century’s trajectory from Romantic idealism to world war and fascist aggression.
Author: Kuan Yew Lee
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789814827423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Fiona Chan
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789814642330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compiled for the first time in Lee's Legacy, this selection of incisive viewpoints displays a wide range of perspectives on Mr Lee's contributions to Singapore and beyond, spanning the sustainability and applicability of the "Singapore model" to Mr Lee's influence on the policies of foreign countries. The result is a thought-provoking anthology of presents a balances overview of the complex and far-reaching legacy of Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
Author: Sumiko Tan
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9789971642471
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