First published in 1956, Han Suyin's magnificient novel about the Emergency Period in Malaya and Singapore evokes all the colour and conflict of a land where, in the late 1940s and early 50s, a bitter guerrilla war was fought between communist terrorists hiding out in the Malayan jungles and Malayan, British, Australian and New Zealand armed forces.
The son of Han Suyin, a doctor, and of Chinese - Belgian parentage is married into an Indian Catholic family.; Han Suyin's son is stricken with meningitis which leaves him retarded and disturbed.; As well, the book has a background of the Chinese- Indian dispute, and Han Suyin acts as a go- between for the two countries.s_____________
In the eighteenth century Colin and his twin sister, Bea, travel from Switzerland to China. Their special mystical gifts and Colin's ability to create precision clockwork machines play a central part in their astounding destinies.
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