The orientalist and the ghost
By: Susan Barker
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780385607780
Subjects: Interracial marriage; Fiction; Racially mixed people; Families; Parent and child; Grandparent and child; History; Social conditions
Description: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humour and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl.