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02022aam a2200349 i 4500 001 D44A3BDE141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 221108t20232023si 000 f eng 010 $a 2022320592 020 $a 9815044346 020 $a 9789815044348 035 $a (OCoLC)1371585149 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d WAU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc $a pcc 050 00 $a PR9570.S53 $b L56 2023 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23/eng/20231027 100 1 $a Lim, Suchen Christine, $e author. 245 10 $a Dearest intimate / $c Suchen Christine Lim. 264 1 $a Singapore : $b Marshall Cavendish Editions, $c [2023] 300 $a 391 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer, Chan Kam Foong, passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother's relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang before WWII and her desperate search for Dearest Intimate. Her grandmother's reflections and letters to Dearest Intimate forces Xiu Yin to examine her marriage to an abusive husband and she plucks up the courage to leave him. A surprise encounter with her first love, a rising Cantonese opera singer, brings a period of calm and joy when they lived together. But when Meng proposes marriage, Xiu Yin backs off and he leaves for Hong Kong. It takes three years of loneliness and letter writing before they reunite again"--Publisher. 500 $a In English. 650 0 $a Actors $z China $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grandparent and child $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Diaries $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517011052.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D44A3BDE141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search