Books Actually, Chinatown, SingaporeJune 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Lydia Kwa, the award-winning author of The Walking Boy, will be reading from her second novel Pulse. The book digs up cultural and religious issues often overlooked in Singaporean society.
Pulse is a complex, riveting novel about love, death and the ties that bind.
The story begins in the summer of 2007 in Toronto’s Chinatown. Natalie is thrown into recollections of her native Singapore when she receives the devastating news that Selim, the son of her childhood friend and lover, has died suddenly. Selim left behind clues that suggest his death may have something to do with Natalie’s own past, and she decides to return to Singapore to uncover the truth. Bound up with this tragedy is the relationship between Natalie and her father, a domineering man whose treatment of his daughter may be the key to understanding Selim’s death.
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