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Book review- Crazy Rich Asians
Even though Crazy Rich Asians and its two sequels have earned a lot of acclaim, I held off on reading it for a long time because I wasn’t sure I cared about the lives of rich, high-class Singaporeans. Especially when the main plot centers on an American-Chinese girl, Rachel, flying to Singapore for the first time with […]
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Book review- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Twenty years ago, Indian writer Arundhati Roy wrote a novel that ended up winning a Booker Prize. In 2017, she released her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which sounds like a cheery, whimsical work, but that is not the type of writer Roy is. So while I was slightly taken by surprise when the […]
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Book review- Green Island
Green Island is a novel about the life of a Taiwanese man imprisoned after the 228 Tragedy in 1948 and his family as they endure Taiwan’s decades of repressive martial law before it became a democracy in the late 1980s. I read Green Island earlier this year at almost the same time that across the Taiwan […]
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Book review-Lord of Formosa
Lord of Formosa is a historical novel about Taiwan I read earlier this year. The lord is Zheng Chenggong or Koxinga, a Chinese nobleman-warlord who seized Taiwan from the Dutch in the early 17th century. Often overlooked, this was a period of time covering several decades when the VOC (Dutch East India Company, a Dutch trading […]
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