...And the Rain My Drink

...And the Rain My Drink

Han Suyin

First published in 1956, Han Suyin’s magnificent novel about the Emergency Period in Malaya and Singapore.

This novel evokes all the colour and conflict of a land where, in the late 1940s and early 50s, a bitter guerrilla war was fought between communist terrorists lurking in the Malayan jungles and British, Australian and New Zealand armed forces. With infinite sharpness and feeling, she writes about the intertwining lives of many people caught up in the clash of powerful forces. Dogged, downtrodden Chinese rubber tappers, a pretty girl called Small Cloud for whom betrayal has become a way of life, and the stiff, aloof world of the British administrators and their ‘mems’.

Dimensions
17.7 x 10.9 cm
Pages
256
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1961.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback.
Language: English.

One copy is available

Condition:Used, condition good enough
Damages or inconvenience notice:
  • Damaged covers
  • Damaged pages
  • Yellowed pages
  • Library stamp
 

Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.

You may also be interested in these titles

Knights In White Armour: The New Art Of War And Peace

Knights In White Armour: The New Art Of War And Peace

Christopher Bellamy

The title of this text refers to the white armoured vehicles of UN forces around the world, and also to the UN's role as peacemakers, rescuers and guardians of law and order.

Pimlico, 1997.
English. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.01
Dunav: P.S. 1991. vukovarske razglednice

Dunav: P.S. 1991. vukovarske razglednice

Pavao Pavličić

A moving and poignant chronicle of the siege and destruction of Vukovar in 1991 through 57 short "postcard" chapters. Pavličić does not write from the perspective of an "ordinary" Zagreb resident who spent the summer of 1991 in Vukovar, and then followed

Hena Com, 1999.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
11.26
Vrijeme nasilja

Vrijeme nasilja

Jean-Pierre Simon

A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.

Svjetlost, 1965.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.46
Živi i mrtvi

Živi i mrtvi

Josip Mlakić
V.B.Z, 2008.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.78
Romeo, Julija i tama

Romeo, Julija i tama

Jan Otčenášek

In occupied Prague in 1942, the student Pavel hides the wounded Jewish woman Hana. In danger and fear, a strong love is born between them. The Gestapo discovers them, Pavel dies tortured under investigation, and Hana survives the Holocaust carrying the me

Svjetlost, 1965.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.26
Matijino stoljeće rata

Matijino stoljeće rata

Ivan Šimić

Matija's Century of War is an epic, so Croatian story about the 20th century written in a superior narrative and style, which you will not read, but swallow!

Despot Infinitus d.o.o., 2024.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
9.76