The Singapore Grip

by J. G. Farrell

A$40 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1978. Stock ID #219514 431pp. Edges and hardback covers foxed, small closed tear on lightly browned dustjacket strengthened with sellotape, a good copy. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss... This is the eve of

• Binding: Hardcover

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