THE HILLS OF SINGAPORE: A LANDSCAPE OF LOSS, LONGING AND LOVE
Book ID/图书代码： 09432512B55669
English Summary/英文概要： Young, beautiful and wealthy, widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s and returns to Singapore for the English education of her two young sons. She is determined not to be drawn back into a secret affair with Zhen, the married Chinese merchant, triad-member and man she loves who is, unbeknownst to him, the father of her eldest son, Alex. Charlotte is convinced she can find happiness in a respectable marriage with the attractive but reticent Captain Maitland. But when murder and death strike, Singapore erupts in the violence of triad wars and Zhen’s growing affection for Alex gives cause for alarm, she must make some hard decisions, for her children and herself.
Drawing on the real-life historical personalities of the time, Dawn Farnham mixes fact and fiction to paint a rich portrait of midnineteenth century Singapore and the realm of the White Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when triads, piracy and crime were rife and life in colonial Southeast Asia was anything but safe.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 年轻，美丽和富有的寡妇，夏洛特麦克劳德在19世纪80年代，离开巴达维亚返回新加坡，教她两个年幼儿子英语。她决心不被卷入与郑的秘事，一个已婚的中国商人，三角恋和她他不知道的爱人，父亲的长子，亚历克斯。夏洛特确信她和有魅力和沉默的队长能找到幸福的婚姻•。但当谋杀和死亡来临，新加坡爆发了黑社会暴力战争和郑对亚历克斯日益增长的感情引起警惕，她必须做出一些艰难的决定，她的孩子和她自己。 对那个时代真实历史人物的描绘，黎明法纳姆混合事实和想象，呈现了19世纪中叶新加坡和白人拉沙捞越领地丰富的画像，那个时代，黑社会，盗版和犯罪盛行，生活在南洋殖民地的人们处于一种不安全状态。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Dawn Farnham1949年出生在英格兰的朴茨茅斯。他的父母在她两岁时移居到澳大利亚西部的佩思。她在土著区长大，经常跟她的朋友游荡在浓密的郊区以及去海滩。在六十年代，17岁的她，像许多其他的澳大利亚年轻人一样，离开澳大利亚登上了去伦敦的船，在漂泊的岁月中，她嫁给了在旅途中认识的丈夫，移居到巴黎，在大众甲壳虫上环游欧洲时学习了法语和许多其他东西。作为一个外国记者，他的丈夫被派遣到异国，他们在80年代和90年代中住在中国香港、朝鲜和日本。在这段时间中，她生了两个女儿，并且教她们英语；回到伦敦后，她又重回学校，在日本的东方和非洲研究院学校获得学士学位，在国王学院取得硕士学位。她和他的丈夫现居新加坡。在这座欣欣向荣的港口城市，她找到了灵感，开始写作，发现了在过去充满色彩和漂泊生活中的特定乐趣。这是她的第一部小说。 Dawn Farnham was born in Portsmouth, England in 1949. Her parents emigrated to Perth, Western Australia when she was two. She grew up a sandgroper, barefoot and free, roaming the bushy suburbs and beaches with her friends. In the sixties she, like so many other young Aussies, left on a ship for London, aged 17. In the Swinging years she met and married her journalist husband and moved to Paris, learned French and lots of other things and travelled round Europe in a Volkswagen beetle. As a foreign correspondent, her husband was posted to exotic locations and they lived in China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan in the eighties and nineties. During this time she raised two daughters and taught English. Back in London she went back to school, doing a B.A. in Japanese at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Master’s Degree at Kings College. She and her husband now live in Singapore. It is in this thriving port city-state that she found her muse and began to write, finding particular pleasure in its colourful and often wild past.
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