Title: The Song of Silver Frond
First published: September 1, 2003
Description: "One morning in Singapore more than fifty years ago, The Venerable One - a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren - takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act based on popular gossip - about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Singapore, fiction, Fiction, romance, general