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A Candle or the Sun (90s)

A Candle or the Sun (90s)

by Gopal Baratham (Author)

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    Paperback 1991

    $3.31
Synopsis

Hernie Perera runs the furniture department of Benson?s, the largest store in Singapore. In his spare time he writes stories. Suddenly, his comfortable life is shattered. His father is found to have terminal cancer, he loses his job, and his lover joins the ?Children of the Book?, a Christian sect committed to overthrowing an oppressive government. An old acquaintance and government official promises Hernie literary success in exchange for information on the ?Children of the Book?. He must now decide between the rewards of political corruption and his conscience. With passion and humour A Candle or the Sun reveals a Singapore far different from the tourist brochures.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 01 Jun 1991
ISBN 10: 1852422254
ISBN 13: 9781852422257

Media Reviews
?Early in my working life I had discovered that salesmanship consisted not of providing people with what they needed, but with what was essential to their dreams. I was confident that our dining-room suite, complete with carpets, curtains and an artificial fireplace, would shortly be snapped up by people occupying oven-hot semis in the newer and, as yet, treeless housing estates on the island. The possibility of winter is essential to the happiness of people living in the tropics?
Author Bio
Born in 1935, Gopal Baratham practised neuro-surgery in a Singapore hospital until his death in 2002. He is the author of Figments of Experience and People Make you Cry, collections of short Stories. A Candle or the Sun was considered too controvesial to be published in Singapore. Dead