An exotic, beguiling love story set in 1950s Singapore. 'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the b

One morning in Singapore a respected, Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young

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