Finding Maria
Farnham, Dawn, 1949-2017
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In December 1950, the worst riots Singapore has ever seen shut down the town for days, killing 18 people and wounding 173. Racial and religious tension had been simmering for months over the custody battle for wartime waif Maria Hertogh between her Malay Muslim foster mother and her Dutch-Catholic biological parents. In May 1950, Eurasian Annie Collins, following this case and filled with hope, returns to Singapore seeking her own lost baby Maria. As the time bomb ticks and Annie unravels the threads of her quest into increasingly dangerous territory, she finds strange recollections intruding, ones that have nothing to do with her own memories of her wartime experiences: disturbing visions and dreams which force her to doubt not just her past life, but her whole idea of who she truly is and even to question the search itself. Finding Maria is at once a mother's quest for her child, an unravelling mystery and a journey into suppressed memory and the nature of self-delusion.
Main title:
Finding Maria / Dawn Farnham.
Author:
Edition:
New and updated edition.
Imprint:
Leicestershire, UK : Monsoon Books Ltd, 2017.
Collation:
334 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published as A crowd of twisted things by Monsoon Books, Singapore (2013).
ISBN:
9781912049240
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
321646
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | FARN | Available |