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“Wonderful…magnificent…awesome…It's a pleasure to live alongside these characters. I loved this book so much: the imaginative setting, the complicated love story, and the heartbreaking way a story can tear a family apart." —Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
Set in a changing Singapore, a radical novel about a boy's unique talents and childhood love would complicate the fate of his community and his country
Ah Boon was born in a fishing village amid the beauty and warmth of 20th-century coastal Singapore, during the final years of colonial rule. Anh. He is a gentle boy and does not like fishing, just likes to spend all day playing with fish. His neighbor, Siok Mei. But when he discovers that he has the unique ability to Having located islands of rich mobility that no one else could find, he felt a new sense of obligation and possibility - something to give back to the community and to impress others. As teenagers, Ah Boon and Siok Mei are caught up in the tragic whirlwind of history: the Japanese invade, the resistance mounts, grief invades, and the future of the fishing village is in doubt. danger. When the country is moving towards rebirth. , two friends, newly empowered, must decide who they want to be and what they are willing to give up.A painful love story and powerful coming-of-age tale that explores the legacy of British colonialism, the Japanese occupation during World War II, and the pursuit of modernity. The Great Reclamation confronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love and hardship. to define home when nature and country collide, literally moving the earth beneath human feet.
