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Following the Wrong God Home

by Catherine Lim
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Crossroads of tradition, modernity, and personal choice.

"Following the Wrong God Home" offers you a kaleidoscopic look at the clash between tradition and personal desires. As Ling grapples with her looming nuptials while standing on the precipice of divergent cultural expectations, you'll find her journey both heart-wrenching and enlightening. It's a deep dive into the complexities of love, duty, and identity, bound to resonate with anyone who's ever faced a choice between the life they're expected to lead and the one they yearn to explore.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Following the Wrong God Home

by Catherine Lim
Save up to 12%
Compare to estimated retail price: RM59.00 MYR  

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ISBN: 9780752841212
Authors: Catherine Lim
Publisher: Orion
Date of Publication: 2001-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.35
(rated by 278 readers)

Description

Never before has Yin Ling appeared in such splendour. Perched in the bridal car with her mother-in-law to be, in layers o unaccustomed make-up, bedecked with the jewels of her fiance’s family, she is about to marry into one of the richest and most influential clans in Singapore. But on the way to the ceremony the car passes through a destitute area of the city and Ling catches sight of a scene of death – a terrible omen for a bride. Instead of looking away, Ling stops the car and goes to look. It is a dead baby, abandoned. Despite her finery Ling picks it up. So begins Catherine Lim’s new novel. Ling – poor, beautiful, an outstanding student and a poet – is to marry Vincent Chee, a rich PhD student from a very traditional, upper-class family. She will become a dutiful wife, not the existence of her dreams, but the Chees’ money and influence is essential, for her mother has cancer and they cannot abandon a faithful old servant, Ah Heng Cheh. However, the mapping out of Ling’s future doesn’t proceed smoothly. Almost against her will, and through her poetry, she meets outspoken American professor, Ben Gallagher, who threatens to overturn everything. Ling must make her east or west, head or heart. The birth of a son makes her moral predicament even more agonizing.
 

Crossroads of tradition, modernity, and personal choice.

"Following the Wrong God Home" offers you a kaleidoscopic look at the clash between tradition and personal desires. As Ling grapples with her looming nuptials while standing on the precipice of divergent cultural expectations, you'll find her journey both heart-wrenching and enlightening. It's a deep dive into the complexities of love, duty, and identity, bound to resonate with anyone who's ever faced a choice between the life they're expected to lead and the one they yearn to explore.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.