By Fiona Cheong,Leslie Bow

ISBN-10: 0252076427

ISBN-13: 9780252076428

ISBN-10: 0393030245

ISBN-13: 9780393030242

The smell of the Gods tells the enthralling, haunting tale of a tender girl's coming of age in Singapore in the course of the tumultuous years of its formation as a country. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of "grown-ups" in her diasporic chinese language relations and to the veiled threats in Southeast Asia through the chilly struggle years. From a kid's restricted standpoint, the radical depicts the rising information of sexuality in either its attractiveness and its effects, specifically for girls. within the context of postcolonial politics, Fiona Cheong skillfully parallels the uncertainties of early life with the transforming into paranoia of a inhabitants saved on alert to communist infiltration. In luminous prose, the radical increases well timed questions about protection, defense, and democracy--and what one has to renounce to accomplish them.

 

Ideal for college kids and students of Asian American and transnational literature, postcolonial historical past, women's reviews, and lots of different interconnected disciplines, this certain variation of The odor of the Gods contains a contextualizing advent, a chronology of ancient occasions lined within the novel, and explanatory notes.

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