Great Reclamation /T

Book Title: Great Reclamation /T
ISBN: 9781035406333
By Author(s):HENG RACHEL
By Publisher:HEADLINE PUBLISHING
Format:TPB

WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AND THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BYTIME,TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS, ELECTRIC LITERATURE ANDBOOKPAGE!

“StunningepicimpressiveIt is a pleasure to simply live alongside these characters.The New York Times

“A deep and powerful love story.”NBCThe Today Show

“A beautifully written novel. I loved so much in this book: the richly imagined setting, the complicated love story, and the heartbreaking way history can tear apart a family.”Ann Napolitano,New York Timesbestselling author ofHello Beautiful

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boys unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country

Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibilitysomething to offer the community and impress the spirited girl he has come to love.

By the time they are teens, Ah Boon and Siok Mei are caught in the tragic sweep of history: the Japanese army invades, the resistance rises, grief intrudes, and the future of the fishing village is in jeopardy. As the nation hurtles toward rebirth, the two friends, newly empowered, must decide who they want to be, and what they are willing to give up.

An aching love story and powerful coming-of-age that reckons with the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity,The Great Reclamationconfronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love, and the difficulty of defining home when nature and nation collide, literally shifting the land beneath peoples feet.