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Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into biography here are some biography books from Singapore for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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The Interpreter's Daughter by Teresa Lim EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Singapore flag Singapore
Description:
A photograph passed down through generations inspires this beautifully written, compelling memoir of one Singapore family and the secrets that defined their story A cherished family photograph, taken in Hong Kong, 1935, sets Teresa Lim on a journey to uncover her family history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers she was guided to the fascinating, ordinary, extraordinary life of her great-aunt Fanny, and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China. But to recover her great-aunt's past, we must first ge... continue