- Strikes and lockouts, Fiction in English, British, Fiction
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else.
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Classical in form, prestige, epic and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- James Gordon Farrell
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 572
- Publisher
- Fontana/Collins, Flamingo, Knopf
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780297774457
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“The city of Singapore was not built up gradually, the way most cities are, by a natural deposit of commerce on the banks of some river or at a traditional confluence of trade routes.”
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