The Moonlight Palace: Library Edition

from wagner.sarah35

A short tale of 1920s Singapore set in a decaying palace and the close-knit but extended family of relatives which inhabits the place. The narrator, the young Agnes Hussein, is determined to both forge a new path for herself and preserve her family's home. A nice, quick story that is full of setb...

from bdtrump

Having lived in Singapore for several months, I appreciated the author's attention to geography and cultural details (chicken rice!). Many works of historical fiction involving Singapore are being published now, and this is one of the better ones.Points off for frequent use of modern English coll...

from whitreidtan

In the 1920s, Singapore was under British colonial rule and was surprisingly cosmopolitan. It experienced a financial boom between the two world wars, just as the Western world did. It had vibrant communities made up of various different nationalities: Indians, Straits Chinese, and British. Some ...

from Pattymclpn

This is a short novel about a girl Agnes that is growing up in a multicultural family. It has an unlikely mix of characters that somehow all live together in an old ramshackle palace in Singapore. It is full of turmoil, struggle and political upheaval. I found it interesting how each character wa...

from BJ3568

I received a digital copy of this novel through Kindle First. While this novel is well written and provides a fantastic view of the place and the life, I kept waiting for something to happen. There are really no major events. This follows a few years in the life of a girl in her late teens. Agnes...