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ISBN | 9789814328364 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Bib. Info | 487p. ; 20cm. |
Categories | 1. Singapore fiction (English) |
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Miss Maria Seetoh, a teacher of English and Literature in St. Peters Secondary School in Singapore, sees herself as a simple soul who only wants to be a good and happy person, and has a dream to write stories about simple, ordinary people going about their daily lives. However, God/Providence/Fate/Chance, etc. decrees otherwise. She is thrown into the tumult of a disastrous marriage that begins as strangely as it ends, a failed love affair that hollows her out, and a controversial teaching career that ends with her abrupt resignation. Most of all, she is caught in a political event as shocking in its causes as in its consequences.