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ID: 637079
Title: Son of Singapore
Author: Tan Kok Seng
Narrator: Benjamin Chow
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:06:48
Language: English
Release date: 08-26-19
Publisher: Storyside AB
Genres: Biography & Memoir, General
Summary:
A publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s, Son of Singapore traces the extraordinary upbringing of an Everyman. As a Teochew farm boy coming of age during the Japanese Occupation, Tan Kok Seng enters the 'university of the world' at only 15, becoming a coolie at the Orchard Road market. On his rounds to the homes of the 'Red Hairs', he befriends a group of Chinese dialect-speaking Caucasians who inspire him to improve himself beyond his humble roots.
Set against Singapore's push towards self-governance, Tan's engaging autobiography reflects the pioneering spirit of the times. Written in deceptively simple prose, notable for its English transliteration of Teochew adages, Son of Singapore sensitively captures fast-disappearing places, people and everyday ways of living.
© 1972, 2013 by Tan Kok Seng. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.
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