Frog Under A Coconut Shell

Josephine Chia

Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

2011

401 páginas

13h 22m

ISBN-13: 9789814398978

Inglês

Frog Under A Coconut Shell means in Malay, Katuk Bawah Tempurong, an idiom which likens someone to a frog that lives under a coconut shell, who believes the shell to be its entire world. It is a reference to the authors own mother, who although herself uneducated and living in a parochial existence in a small kampong (attap village), believed in and struggled for a greater visionthe right to educate her daughter. The author beautifully evokes the experience of living with her family in rural Potong Pasir of the 1950s and 60s, and paints in heartwarming detail, her mothers life journey from the bloom of her youth to her present affliction with Alzheimers disease. In part a nostalgic memoir of Old Singapore, Frog Under A Coconut Shell, is also, most wholeheartedly, a testament to the love and courage of a mother that changed the life of her daughter forever.