Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Very Good the era that was a

the era that was a forebear of the Tiananmen Square uprising

Zelfeni Wimra

Set in Berkeley

A #1 New York Times bestselling author

the man who dared to defy him to his face

Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Very Good the era that was aThis 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