4 Novels by Meira Chand
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Overview: Meira Chand is of Indian and Swiss parentage and was born and educated in London. In 1962 she went to live in Japan and, except for a break of five years in India, remained there until 1997 when she moved to Singapore where she now currently lives. She is the author of seven highly praised novels whose themes examine not only the conflict of cultures but the position of the outsider. Five of her novels, The Gossamer Fly, Last Quadrant, The Bonsai Tree, The Painted Cage and A Choice of Evils are all set in Japan. House of the Sun was set in India as is her new book, The Goddess of Perilous Passage, to be published at the end of next year. House of the Sun was adapted for the stage in London and voted Critic’s Choice. It was the first all Asian play with an all Asian cast to be performed there.
Meira Chand was a judge for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Genre: Fiction > General fiction, Contemporary
A Different Sky: A dazzling, sweeping novel telling the history of Singapore through the moving stories of three families whose lives become intertwined
Singapore—a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this in-between island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; 10-year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; Raj, fresh off the boat from India, wants only to work hard and become a successful businessman. As the years pass, and World War II sweeps through the east, with the Japanese occupying Singapore, the three are thrown together in unexpected ways, and tested to breaking point. Richly evocative, this novel paints a scintillating panorama of 30 tumultuous years in Singapore’s history through the passions and struggles of characters the reader will find it hard to forget.
A Far Horizon: In 1756 Calcutta is a city on the brink of Empire. The grandiose buildings of White Town, settled about Fort William, stand in stark contrast to the bustle of Black Town across the Maratha Ditch.
In White Town Chief Magistrate Holwell and his arch-rival Governor Drake must unite to outwit the dangerous schemes of the nawab of Murshidabad. In Black Town the half-cast girl Sati, believed possessed by the Goddess Kali, finds herself the centre of a religious cult. But in Murshidabad the nawab wishes only to rid India of the British – an obsession that will lead to the notorious incident of ‘The Black Hole of Calcutta.’
House of the Sun: ‘Bhai Sahib examined Mrs Hathiramani’s horoscope. He sat cross-legged on the stone floor in a once white vest and dhoti… ‘What is it?’ Mrs Hathiramani asked, leaning forward. She was alarmed, not so much at what might be written in the horoscope, but at the change in Bhai Sahib’s expression…’
Mrs Hathiramani is not the only soul in the town of Sadhbela to be unsettled by the coming of Saturn into the House of the Sun. As Meira Chand’s tale unfolds, various other townspeople will meet with struggles and surprises, turmoil and cruelty, ill fate and good fortune.
The Painted Cage: Based on a true story, Meira Chand’s The Painted Cage explores the tragedy of a Victorian woman who becomes the victim of her own sensuality.
In Yokohama, Japan, on the morning of January 5th 1897, the trial begins of Amy Redmore, charged with the murder of her husband Reggie, ex-secretary of the Yokohama United Club. Marriage had transported Amy – an heiress 15 years her husband’s junior – from the green fields of Somerset, and along the way she discovered disturbing truths about Reggie: his mistress and secret child, his addiction to arsenic. In colonial Yokohama the couple began to lead separate lives, with fatal consequences.
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