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The devil's garden / Nigel Barley.
- Title
- The devil's garden / Nigel Barley.
- Author
- Barley, Nigel.
- Publication
- Singapore : Monsoon Books, 2011.
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- Description
- 254 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Gardens are magical places -- images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and peace, co-operation and competition. It is 1942 and Singapore is Syonanto, part of the Japanese Empire, where violence and starvation stalk the streets but in the Singapore Botanic Gardens a bizarre tranquillity reigns between warring nations and even love awakes as old identities melt away in the heady atmosphere of the Orchid House. From its unique perspective and with a mixture of humour and romance, this book pictures a formative moment in the emergence of Singapore, where loyalties are less secure than those of the official histories and truth is anything but simple.
- Alternative Title
- Love and war in Singapore under the Japanese flag
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9789814358422 (pbk.)
- 9814358428 (pbk.)
- 9789814358439 (e-book)
- 9814358436 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2011315710
- OCLC
- 742334469
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library