The Thorn of Lion City. A Memoir

by Lucy Lum

A$30 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

London. Harper Perennial. 2008. Stock ID #217330 231pp, very good hardback in dustjacket. An intense and emotive memoir of one girl's difficult family upbringing in a Singaporean Chinese family during the Second World War. Lucy Lum was the third of seven children, born in Singapore in 1933 into a Chinese immigrant family ruled with an iron hand by Popo, her fearsome and superstitious grandmother. Popo is a firm

• Binding: Hardcover

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