Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Farrell, J.G.; Mahon, Derek |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 1/31/2005 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be forWalter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. No matterhow forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intendedmatch, the son of Blackett’s partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the Leagueof Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe,the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett’s price-fixingand market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world ofthe British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about tocome to a terrible end.
A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a cityunder siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy”that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.
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