Learning to Fly
by Audrey Chin
A tenement child in Chinatown, Swee Lian had looked out of her many-storeyed home, wishing that she like the pigeon could take wing and rise above the mundanity of her life.
It is a wish that is to come true for her when her entry into university put her in the way of John Thomas, botany professor and later her husband. The vistas he presents open the way for her to find voice and a life work studying the practices of the Bornean jungles’ native peoples.
Step by faltering step she learns. as a winged creature emerging from a chrysalids, she becomes. And in the path that she forges for herself, she finds the spiritual strength to fly, even in the face of an inexorable mortality.
Size: 115 x 179 mm (P)
Extent: 200 pp text
Binding: Limp binding
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 978-981-3065-28-1
by Audrey Chin
A tenement child in Chinatown, Swee Lian had looked out of her many-storeyed home, wishing that she like the pigeon could take wing and rise above the mundanity of her life.
It is a wish that is to come true for her when her entry into university put her in the way of John Thomas, botany professor and later her husband. The vistas he presents open the way for her to find voice and a life work studying the practices of the Bornean jungles’ native peoples.
Step by faltering step she learns. as a winged creature emerging from a chrysalids, she becomes. And in the path that she forges for herself, she finds the spiritual strength to fly, even in the face of an inexorable mortality.
Size: 115 x 179 mm (P)
Extent: 200 pp text
Binding: Limp binding
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 978-981-3065-28-1
by Audrey Chin
A tenement child in Chinatown, Swee Lian had looked out of her many-storeyed home, wishing that she like the pigeon could take wing and rise above the mundanity of her life.
It is a wish that is to come true for her when her entry into university put her in the way of John Thomas, botany professor and later her husband. The vistas he presents open the way for her to find voice and a life work studying the practices of the Bornean jungles’ native peoples.
Step by faltering step she learns. as a winged creature emerging from a chrysalids, she becomes. And in the path that she forges for herself, she finds the spiritual strength to fly, even in the face of an inexorable mortality.
Size: 115 x 179 mm (P)
Extent: 200 pp text
Binding: Limp binding
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 978-981-3065-28-1
Reviews
~ Poignant and heartwarming. Audrey Chin is a literary maestro and master storyteller who engages the reader to the point of empathy. The story also includes interesting details on plants and the mangrove habitat. A very rewarding read.
~ I loved this novel, the heart breaking love story. Audrey is a poetic genius, I love her work.
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