Tuesday, July 30, 2024

East Meets West With a Vengeance in ‘The Singapore Grip’

As a fan of “East-meets-West” fiction, I’ve long wanted to read The Singapore Grip (1978), a historical novel by J. G. Farrell. I’ve visited Singapore several times and am fascinated by its older as well as its modern history.

All I knew going in to The Singapore Grip was that it was set mainly in Singapore in the years leading up to February 1942, when the Japanese Imperial forces overwhelmed the British in Malaya. I didn’t know what the central themes would be. 


See full article on Medium:

https://medium.com/books-are-our-superpower/east-meets-west-with-a-vengeance-in-the-singapore-grip-b151b2589232?sk=a7d1b898e8c15f99037b7f999b4065f7

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