Song by Michelle Jana Chan
A sweeping historical epic, following one boys long journey from rags to riches; by the award-winning journalist and travel editor of Vanity Fair, Michelle Jana Chan- 'Jana Chan has produced a wonderfully lush and atmospheric odyssey of survival against all oddsThis novel is steeped in empathy at the unfairness of poverty and hardship, and the injustice of a culture based on the old plutocracy, while also exploring the many acts of individual kindness that can change a person’s fortune. Ultimately, Jana Chan shows us how suffering and disadvantage can drive, rather than crush the human spirit' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
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'Precise, heartfelt, breathtaking . . . Song will touch you with its remarkable odyssey and make you believe in dreams again' Elif Shafak, author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- 'A strong picaresque element powers this saga' Daily Mail
- 'Michelle Jana Chan brings a world of equal peril and possibility to life with her rich, radiant prose' Tatler
- 'A beautifully told tale with fascinating historical insight' Vanity Fair
- 'One of the Caribbean’s little-known stories' Times Literary Supplement
- 'Song offers a rare and compelling fictional exploration of the pioneering Chinese presence in British Guyana, in the eighteenth century. A powerful testimony to frontier life in Guyana's gold-mining interior' Jacob Ross, author of The Bone Readers
- 'A dazzling novel, brimming with psychological acuity. Chan conjures the sweet smells of Guiana, the shadow of an oil lamp and a filigree of leaves leaning over a river in swirling mist. An unforgettable portrait of a man and a little-known land' Sara Wheeler
Michelle Jana Chan is an award-winning journalist and travel editor of Vanity Fair in the UK, where she presents the magazine's digital Future Series. Formerly, Michelle was a BBC TV presenter, a news producer at CNN Internationaland a reporter at Newsweek. She was a Morehead-Cain scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800180376 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800180373 |
| Title | Song |
| Author | Michelle Jana Chan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Unbound |
| Year published | 2021-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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