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The Man who Collected Women

by Nigel Barley
RM53.01 MYR
The Man who Collected Women - Thryft
The Man who Collected Women - Thryft
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The Man who Collected Women

by Nigel Barley
RM53.01 MYR
ISBN: 9781912049745
Authors: Nigel Barley
Publisher: Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
Date of Publication: 2021-03-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Historical Fiction, Mythology, War, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Asia, Classics, Historical Fiction, Race
Goodreads rating: 2.67
(rated by 15 readers)

Description

The eccentric Mr Hare – as he was known to Sophia, the first wife of Singapore founder Thomas Stamford Raffles – and his Asian harem are brought vividly to life in this work of historical fiction set in Southeast Asia. Arthur Grimsby is an ageing expat in 1960s Singapore. Museum curator, ornithologist, freshly bereaved, he fears Singapore's looming independence and his redundancy and tries to complete one final piece of the life story of an eccentric 19th-century Englishman called Alexander Hare. Hare was a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant Governor of Java and the founder of Singapore, but Hare's chief claim to fame is as the creator of an Asian harem, including in his collection women from Java, Bali, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, China, India and Africa. Hare's love of women and his assembling of a harem, initially in Borneo and then on an uninhabited atoll that would become the Cocos-Keeling Islands, made him an object of guilty male fantasies and of strident female resentments, the epitome of masculine, colonial exploitation. But Arthur Grimsby's paths are no straighter than Alexander Hare's and the two grow together as their destinies intertwine.
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