Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers
True Stories of Love and Conflict in Indian-Chinese Relationships
$44.76
- Paperback
230 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2024
Summary
Nuanced portraits of the lives of Chinese-Indian couples and their struggles to cope within a polarized world.
Humorous and heart-breaking while demonstrating love’s power to transform society.
“You shouldn’t be with a Chinese girl… that should be my girl,” a man in Singapore allegedly said this to a Chinese-Indian couple as he spat towards them. In a world brimming with such prejudice and cultural tensions, a remarkable phenomenon emerges - nearly one in five marriages in the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815127140 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9815127144 |
| Author: | Shivaji Das, Yolanda Yu |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2024 |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 133mm |
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About The Author
Shivaji Das
Shivaji Das is the author of six critically acclaimed travel, art and business books. He was the first prize winner for Time Magazine’s Sub-Continental Drift Essay contest and shortlisted for Fair Australia Prize for Short Stories. Shivaji has been actively involved in migrant issues and is the conceptualiser and organiser for the acclaimed Migrant Worker and Refugee Poetry Contests in Singapore, Malaysia and Kenya and is the founder and director of the Global Migrant Festival.
Yolanda Yu is the author of Neighbour’s Luck, a collection of short stories that was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Award 2020. She has received multiple literary awards, including DIX MOTS short story award by Alliance Francaise, Golden Point Award 2017 and 2015, and Singapore Tertiary Chinese Literature Award 2001. Yolanda’s work has been featured in Singapore Writers’ Festival, various anthologies and magazines and newspapers.
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