| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Contents |
Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 217 |
| Summary |
Set in Singapore in the 1910s, A Nyonya Mosaic is the story of a young girl growing up in a slowly changing world. William Gwee Thian Hock relates the childhood impressions of his Nyonya mother through her own eyes - the scenes of happiness, birthdays and weddings; and the inevitable disease and death; the childish passions and fears woven through the mosaic of a strict and sometimes unrelenting culture; as intricate and as colourful in its every detail. Much in the foreground is the family, her matriarchal grandmother, her dogmatic father and her siblings, all with their own stories, but alwa |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Seow, Leong Neo, 1912- -- Childhood and youth
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Gwee, Thian Hock -- Family
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| SUBJECT |
Gwee, Thian Hock fast |
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Seow, Leong Neo, 1912- fast |
| Subject |
Peranakan (Asian people) -- Social life and customs
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Peranakan (Asian people) -- Singapore -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Families
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Peranakan (Asian people)
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Singapore
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013340719 |
| ISBN |
9789814435529 |
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981443552X |
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