Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New or of our possibilities

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With original illustrations by Ian Falconer

Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New or of our possibilitiesThis brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Siok, whose sage advice falls on deaf ears. Expatriates, spies, fifth columnists, and nationalistsincluding the