A Paradise of Illusions
$31.35
- Paperback
306 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2022
Summary
A story of love, courage, and compromise set in the multi-cultural backdrop of pre-war Penang.
Anna, the pampered daughter of a maverick Englishman and his local Muslim wife, has been promised the unprecedented freedom to marry for love. Her young life, like the island she inhabits, is perched at the crossroads of eastern and western cultures in the waning days of the British Empire in Asia.
The first man she falls for, the son of a prominent Chinese family in Penang, breaks h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815017366 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9815017365 |
| Author: | Laurie Hashim |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 306 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 136mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Laurie Hashim
Laurie Hashim lives with her husband, three boys, and two dogs in Santa Barbara, California. Laurie graduated many years ago with a degree in economics from Tufts University. She has worked in management consulting in Boston, advertising in Kuala Lumpur, and software in San Francisco. But these days when she is not writing or doing research for writing, she is hiking, biking, and travelling.
The island of Penang has captivated the author ever since she married into a sprawling, multicultural family from this metropolitan mosaic almost thirty years ago. Ms Hashim is grateful to the Penang historical society, fastidious colonial records, and a generation of Penangites devoted to writing memoirs, which have helped her place her imagined characters in their proper time and place.
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