Rice Bowl

Download or read book Rice Bowl written by Suchen Christine Lim and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, passionate and idealistic, Sister Marie rejects the conformity of her first love, Paul Tan, the police inspector. She embraces the liberalism of her second love, Hans Kuhn, the American missionary, and leads a group of students to question the values of a nation gripped by fear of the government and loss of their rice bowl. They organise a protest march against the Vietnam War, which leads to a riot, detention and deportation of the workers she tries to help. Ser Mei, her student and the daughter of a prostitute, meets a tragic death.