AWA Book Review: The Light Between Us by Elaine Chiew (2024)
A work of historical fiction and time travel, Elaine Chew's The Light Between Us is an unusually sweet story of love across time in S'pore.
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Mandakini Arora
Sep 142 min read
AWA Book Review: Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux (2023)
Review of Paul Theroux's fictionalized novel inspired by the life George Orwell when he served in the police force in British-ruled Burma.
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Mandakini Arora
Apr 52 min read
AWA Book Review: Concerning My Daughter
Mandakini reviews the Korean novel, Concerning My Daughter, that explores themes of parental expectations, societal pressure, and love.
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Mandakini Arora
Feb 12 min read
AWA Book Review: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Mandakini Arora's book review of Oprah's Book Club novel, The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verhese.
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Mandakini Arora
Nov 2, 20232 min read
AWA Book Review: The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
Review of Rachel Heng's engaging novel, The Great Reclamation based in post-WW2 Singapore, by AWA member and historian Mandakini Arora.
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Mandakini Arora
Sep 2, 20232 min read
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By Mandakini Arora The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng, 2023 If you are a Tan Twan Eng fan, his third novel will remind you why. If this...
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Mandakini Arora
May 5, 20232 min read
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By Mandakini Arora The Accidental Malay by Karina Robles Bahrin, 2022 The Accidental Malay caught my eye at the WH Smith bookstore in...
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Mandakini Arora
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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by Mandakini Arora Book: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, 2020 Narrated entirely in the second person by a dead...
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Mandakini Arora
Dec 31, 20222 min read
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by Mandakini Arora How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee, 2019 How We Disappeared opens with three versions of Ng Wang Di’s birth, common...
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Mandakini Arora
Nov 8, 20222 min read
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by Mandakini Arora Book: The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz, 2022 “The revulsion of having to talk about our mother’s uterus was bad...
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