The Gossamer Fly
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LAST QUADRANT
ISBN: 978-981-4828-22-2
In the havoc of a great typhoon, Akiko finds herself stranded with Eva, her adoptive mother, Kyo, the natural mother she has never known and Daniel, a troubled young man who has fallen in love with her. In the brief calm of the typhoon’s eye, the group arrives at the comparative safety of their wealthy English neighbour’s concrete house. There they must wait out the violence of the last quadrant – the wildest part of the storm. As the refugees draw together in a fight for survival and are forced to reckon with their deepest selves, the terrible night becomes a turning point for each of them.
SACRED WATERS
ISBN: 978-981-4779-50-0
Orphaned as a child and widowed at thirteen, Sita has always known the shame of being born female in Indian society. Her life constrained and shaped by the men around her, she could not be more different from her daughter, Amita, a headstrong university professor determined to live life on her own terms. Richly layered and beautifully evocative, the novel is a compelling exploration of two women’s struggle to assert themselves in male-dominated societies of both the past and the present.
A CHOICE OF EVILS
ISBN: 978-981-4828-24-6
Set against the backdrop of the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s, the story of those tumultuous years is told through the lives of a disparate group of fictional characters: a young Russian woman émigré caught between her complex love affair with a British journalist and a Japanese diplomat, an Indian nationalist working for Japanese intelligence, a Chinese professor with communist sympathies, an American missionary doctor and a Japanese soldier, all brought together by the monstrous dislocation of war, enmeshed in a savage world beyond their control.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Meira Chand is of Indian-Swiss parentage and was born and educated in London. She has lived for many years in Japan, and also in India. In 1997 she moved to Singapore, and is now a citizen of the country. Her multi-cultural heritage is reflected in her novels.
Also by Meira Chand:
A Different Sky
A Far Horizon
House of the Sun
The Painted Cage