Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New Middle-earth lies under the shadow

Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth

With lucidity and elegance

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Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New Middle-earth lies under the shadowThis brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Siok, whose sage advice falls on deaf ears. Expatriates, spies, fifth columnists, and nationalistsincluding the