Title: The orientalist and the ghost
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.
Subjects: Interracial marriage, Fiction, Racially mixed people, Families, Parent and child, Grandparent and child, History, Social conditions, Fiction, family life, general, Parent and child, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, London (england), fiction, Malaysia, fiction, Marriage, fiction
Places: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), London (England), England, London, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur