by Noel Barber · Coronet Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340282625
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«Tanamera» is a historical novel by Noel Barber, published by Coronet Books in paperback (736 pages, in English).
John Dexter, heir to a financial empire, and Julie Soong, daughter of a powerful Chinese family, live a forbidden romance in Singapore and British Malaya. The plot spans from the 1930s to the Second World War, with the Japanese occupation and the birth of a new nation as a backdrop, amid social and intercultural tensions.
The work was originally published in 1981; this English edition appeared in July 1995 and is framed as historical fiction, romance and family saga.
Aimed at a general audience, especially those interested in the colonial history of Singapore and Malaya and period romances with a wartime backdrop.
Noel Barber was a British novelist and journalist. Many of his novels, set in exotic countries, are about his experiences as leading foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail. He was the son of John Barber and his Danish wife, Musse, and had two brothers: Kenneth, a banker, and Anthony Barber, Baron Barber.
