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Rice Bowl
ISBN 9789815084436
A powerful story of young love and idealism set in Singapore in the 1960s, a time of political uncertainties and economic insecurity.
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A powerful story of young love and idealism set in Singapore in the 1960s, a time of political uncertainties and economic insecurity.
Young, passionate and idealistic, Sister Marie rejects the conformity of her first love, a Singaporean police inspector, and embraces the liberalism of her second love, an American missionary. Fresh into university, she leads a group of students to question the values of a nation gripped by fear of the government and loss of their rice bowl. They organise a protest march against the Vietnam War, which leads to a riot, detention and deportation of the workers they try to help. In the midst of this, a student meets a tragic death, while a lecturer and a suspected Communist agent provocateur goes crazy in his attempts to radicalise the students-workers’ movement.
“I have been struck by the sheer power and force of this short, exciting and absorbing book. Rice Bowl is a tour de force. Any reader experiencing this dramatic narrative of shattered dreams and realised hopes will be compelled to re-examine his/her values for Rice Bowl is a book which demands our personal and honest engagement.” — Dr Kirpal Singh, writer, critic, scholar
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Suchen Christine Lim is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children’s stories and a non-fiction book. She was awarded the Southeast Asia Write Award in 2012 for her body of work.
Fistful of Colours, winner of the inaugural Singapore Literature Prize, is cited as a classic Singapore novel. Later A Bit of Earth and The Lies That Build A Marriage were short listed for the same prize. Her debut novel, Rice Bowl, is considered a landmark novel on post-independence Singapore. The River’s Song was chosen as a “100 Best Books of 2015” Kirkus Reviews (USA) and Book of the Month in The Sunday Times, Singapore.
Awarded a Fulbright grant, she was a Fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and later its Writer in Residence. She was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and has held writing residencies in the US, UK, Australia, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and Myanmar.
(Author photo by Russel Wong)
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