Noel Barber

Curiously familiar colonial expats

~ Woman of Cairo, by Noel Barber ~ [This review would make better sense if the reader first read my review of Noel Barber’s Tanamera] Despite being set in Cairo – where Tanamera was set in Singapore – both novels...

9 July 2020
Lisa

Books Diaspora Fiction Historical fiction

Colonial Singapore

~ Tanamera, by Noel Barber ~ When I first saw this title, I didn’t recognise it straightaway, being more accustomed to reading it as 2 separate words: ‘Tanah Merah” – Merah is red, and Tanah is soil, land, even territory....

28 May 2020
Lisa

Noel Barber

Curiously familiar colonial expats

Colonial Singapore

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