Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New Are the younger leaders up

Are the younger leaders up to the mark

and move forward with renewed purpose

His grow-up

With lucidity and elegance

One of the most influential literary works of our time

Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New Are the younger leaders upThis brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Siok, whose sage advice falls on deaf ears. Expatriates, spies, fifth columnists, and nationalistsincluding the