Elaine Chiew's Books

The Heartsick Diaspora

and other stories

By: Elaine Chiew

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Set in different cities around the world, Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian writer joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women—Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers. > Acutely observed, wry and playful, her stories are as worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This fabulous debut collection heralds an exciting new literary voice.

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1912408376

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9781912408375

The Heartsick Diaspora

and other stories

By: Elaine Chiew

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By: Elaine Chiew

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1912408376

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Strengthening, inspiring, and delivering cancer control services: Impact of the World Cancer Congress 2018 Kuala Lumpur for Malaysia and ASEAN

By: Dr Murallitharan M,Mandy Thoo,Kenneth Low,Calvin Fernandez,Choo Siew Li,Elaine Chong,Nadia Inez Junazli,Krystal Ng Lu Shin,Viji Nair

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Strengthening, inspiring, and delivering cancer control services: Impact of the World Cancer Congress 2018 Kuala Lumpur for Malaysia and ASEAN

By: Dr Murallitharan M,Mandy Thoo,Kenneth Low,Calvin Fernandez,Choo Siew Li,Elaine Chong,Nadia Inez Junazli,Krystal Ng Lu Shin,Viji Nair

This book is intended to capture the impact of bringing a global event such as the World Cancer Congress to a particular country.

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National Cancer Society Malaysia

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967109564X

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9789671095645

Paper Daughter

A Memoir

By: M. Elaine Mar

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Paper Daughter

A Memoir

By: M. Elaine Mar

When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful. While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt's house, Mar quickly masters English and begins to excel in school. But as her home and school life--Chinese tradition and American independence--become two increasingly disparate worlds, Mar tries desperately to navigate between them. Adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality leave Elaine isolated and confused. She yearns for storebought clothes and falls for a red-haired boy who leads her away from the fretful eyes of her family. In his presence, Elaine is overcome by the strength of her desire--blocking out her family's visions of an arranged marriage in Hong Kong. From surviving racist harassment in the schooIyard to trying to flip her straight hair like Farrah Fawcett, from hiding her parents' heritage to arriving alone at Harvard University, Mar's story is at once an unforgettable personal journey and an unflinching, brutal look at the realities of the American Dream.

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Harper Perennial

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0060930527

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9780060930523

Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky

By: Elaine Kennedy

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Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky

By: Elaine Kennedy

The plight of migrant factory workers in South Korea leads Katoomba-based author Elaine Kennedy to question her own motives for travel and working in Daegu. Heartbreaking and surprisingly intimate, Kennedy's memoir is full of true drama and incident. This is a 'stranger than fiction' story that compels like the best written novels. The reader is drawn deeper and deeper into the beauties, mysteries and injustices that surround and disturb the author, while Kennedy's undercover fight to assist those who have come to Korea without her own privileges is tense and gripping. This original, warm and suspenseful story is peopled with wonderful characters and rings with the passion and authenticity of truth.

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Transit Lounge Pub.

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1921924101

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9781921924101

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The Heartsick Diaspora

The Heartsick Diaspora

The Heartsick Diaspora

The Heartsick Diaspora

Strengthening, inspiring, and delivering cancer control services: Impact of the World Cancer Congress 2018 Kuala Lumpur for Malaysia and ASEAN

Strengthening, inspiring, and delivering cancer control services: Impact of the World Cancer Congress 2018 Kuala Lumpur for Malaysia and ASEAN

Paper Daughter

Paper Daughter

Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky

Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky

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