The River's Song -- Suchen Christine Lim, Paperback

Living in the USA for many years, Ping has become a stranger to her own country, Singapore. She must go back for the first time in many years and as she reflects on her life on the plane journey back, the past and present collide.

What would have happened if she'd stayed in Singapore? Followed her heart rather than her ambition?

In this beautifully told story of a life changed forever by circumstances, we learn of Ping's childhood growing up in Chinatown, her first love and its complications, the challenges of family relationships set against the backdrop of a nation state changing irrevocably from an island backwater to a powerful financial hub.

Author: Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher: Aurora Metro Books
Published: 05/27/2014
Pages: 363
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781906582982

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2015 pg. 177
Kirkus Best Indie Books 12/15/2015 pg. 29

About the Author
Recipient of the South East Asia S.E.A.Write Award 2012, Suchen Christine Lim is one of Singapore's most talented and distinguished writers. Born in Malaysia, she grew up in Singapore. In 1992, her third novel, Fistful of Colours, was awarded the Inaugural Singapore Literature Prize. A Bit Of Earth (2000), her fourth novel, and a short---story collection, The Lies That Build A Marriage (2007) were subsequently shortlisted for the same prize. A short story, The Morning After, was made into a film for national television in 2008. In 2010, she co--scripted and was featured in Writing The City, a popular series of short films commissioned by the British Council, Singapore. A play, The Amah: A Portrait in Black & White, and a children's book have won merit prizes, and the Ministry of Education have adopted several of her children's picture books for kindergartens and primary schools.

Awarded a Fulbright grant in 1997, she is a Fellow of the International Writers' Program, University of Iowa, and the first Singapore writer honored as the university's International Writer---in---Residence in 2000. Since then, she has also held writing residencies in Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea and at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2011, she was the Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In the UK she has been writer in residence at Arvon Foundation several times. She returned to Moniak Mhor in Scotland in the Summer of 2013 to hold another workshop for writers.