| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | October 04, 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st |
Paperback | |
| Origin: | Singapore |
| ISBN13: | 9789814914116 |
| ISBN10: | 9814914118 |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.66 inches |
| Weight: | 294.83 g |
About the Book
‘Yalpanam’, an old colonial house on Coal Island in Malaysia, is swarming with ghosts. Its inhabitant, one hundred and eighty-five year old recluse, Pushpanayagi, has been avoiding them for decades. But that is about to change. When eighteen-year-old neighbour Maxim Cheah, disgruntled at home, arrives on an apparent whim at ‘Yalpanam’, they begin an unlikely friendship that will rock Maxim’s world, and send Pushpanayagi whirling through space-time, back to 19th century and 1940s Malaya. Will the ghosts of the old lady’s past—a rigid British lepidopterist, his melancholic first wife, his deceptively vibrant second wife, their opium-addicted servant—release her? What will Maxim discover from her friendship with her enigmatic neighbour?