Description
A period of violence and considerable unrest. Chinese middle school rioting, clashing political wills, ill-concealed racial bickering and the imminence of self government make Singapore in the 1950s a turbulent melting pot. Yet Clarence de Sequiera, middle-aged Eurasian civil servant, has little attention for the troubles of the wider world, being too distracted with his own problems. In one way or another, his relationships with wife and in-laws, his hardships at work in the PWD, his mounting beer bills and his hazardous dodging of one, Arunachalam Chettiar, moneylender, all revolve around his inability to pay off the loan on a second-hand car. In a bid to raise money fast Clarence decides to play the four- digit lottery, the consuming passion of almost everyone, it seems. But Clarence doesn't realise how high the stakes actually get till he finds himself sucked into the deadly undertones of this number game
ISBN:9813065478
