num_pages: 184
description: Bestselling author Catherine Lim spins a yarn of Asian superstition, beliefs and myths against a backdrop of callous, faceless modernity. The serpent's Tooth neatly telescopes three generations of traditional household into one dysfunctional household held together by the bondage of family ties and a history of wasted efforts and desperate self-delusion.in this quiet tragedy of everyday man, only Angela, the daughter-in-law, the stoic Old Mother, the adopted idiot Bock and the black sheep Michael are left to preserve the substance of the family as it crumbles under the weight of materialism, spite and envy.-source : black flap of the book
language: English
title: The serpent's tooth
titlecomplete: The serpent's tooth
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Times Books International