Rice bowl
By: Suchen Christine Lim
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Editions
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789814484411; 9789812618962
Subjects: Youth; Fiction; History
Description: Young, passionate and idealistic, Sister Marie rejects the conformity of her first love, Paul Tan, the police inspector. She embraces the liberalism of her second love, Hans Kuhn, the American missionary, and leads a group of students to question the values of a nation gripped by fear of the government and loss of their rice bowl. They organise a protest march against the Vietnam War, which leads to a riot, detention and deportation of the workers she tries to help. Ser Mei, her student and the daughter of a prostitute, meets a tragic death.
Notes: Originally published 1984 by Times Books International.

Reprinted 1989, 1991 and 2005.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; a note to the reader; contents; convent; one; two; three; four; ser mei; five; six; seven; university; eight; nine; ten; jurong; eleven; twelve; thirteen; fourteen; fifteen; sixteen; seventeen; eighteen; nineteen; twenty; twenty-one; twenty-two; twenty-three; the author.