by Suchen Christine Lim · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789815044348
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«Dearest Intimate» is the historical novel by Suchen Christine Lim, published in paperback by Marshall Cavendish in 2022 (392 pages, in English).
After the death of Chan Kam Foong, a singer of male roles, her granddaughter Xiu Yin inherits a secret diary about her grandmother's flight from China to Nanyang before the war and the search for Dearest Intimate; those memoirs lead her to examine her marriage. Three generations of women, love, abuse and Cantonese opera, with Singapore as backdrop.
The work was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize in the English fiction category (2024).
For readers of historical fiction seeking a story with female protagonists and a strong sense of place, set in Singapore.
