Malaya 1951, Christopher Milnar falls passionately in love with Chinese nurse Evangeline in a jungle resettlement camp - an affair that ends in tragedy when, under attack from Communist guerrillas, Christopher is betrayed, beaten and left for dead. Half a century later the ghosts of that time return to haunt Christopher.
In Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection, a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl an affair that ends in tragedy when, under attack from Communist guerrillas, Christopher is betrayed, beaten, and left for dead. In 1969, Frances, Christopher’s Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a Chinese teacher twice her age and drawn into the Malay-Chinese race riots in Kuala Lumpur. The story then travels to 1990s London, when the ghosts of that time return to haunt Christopher, triggering vivid memories of colonial misconduct and lost love. Frances's two mixed-race children live with their grandfather on a council estate, and embark on a quest to discover the truth behind their mother’s death.
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Barker is a sharp and original writer. I greatly envied both her ruthlessness and her tender, acute observations of these characters * Guardian *
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An epic love story following three generations of one family through the chaotic upheaval of post-war Malaysia. By the acclaiimed author of THE INCARNATIONS
Susan Barker was born in London in 1978 to a Chinese Malaysian mother and an English father. Aged twenty-five, she completed the acclaimed novel Sayonara Bar (Funny, crisply written and engaging Times), followed by The Orientalist and the Ghost (Sharp and original Guardian). While writing her third novel The Incarnations she spent several years living in Beijing, researching modern and ancient China. She is currently based in Shenzhen, China.
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