Tanamera
by NOEL BARBER | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0340282622 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0340282622 Global Overview for this book
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Coronet Books 1989
736 pages
The spellbinding story of two lovers, and two great dynasties: one British, the other Chinese, of the society that separated them and the passion that bound them together.
Tanamera sweeps from the steamy, British-ruled Malaya of the 1930s, through the bloody days of the Japanese occupation, to the tumultuous birth of a new nation.
At the centre is John Dexter, heir to a fabulous financial empire, and Julie Soong, daughter of Singapore's richest and most powerful Chinese family. Their love is as inevitable as it is forbidden - and the price they are to pay is beyond their wildest imaginings...
736 pages
The spellbinding story of two lovers, and two great dynasties: one British, the other Chinese, of the society that separated them and the passion that bound them together.
Tanamera sweeps from the steamy, British-ruled Malaya of the 1930s, through the bloody days of the Japanese occupation, to the tumultuous birth of a new nation.
At the centre is John Dexter, heir to a fabulous financial empire, and Julie Soong, daughter of Singapore's richest and most powerful Chinese family. Their love is as inevitable as it is forbidden - and the price they are to pay is beyond their wildest imaginings...
Moving the book to my shelf to read it in peace