Description
Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong. exploring a love that breaks through the divide of race and culture, a love that is both deeply physical and a marriage of souls.
Set against the backdrop of 1830s Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplace, this romance follows the struggle of two lovers: Zhen, once the lowliest of Chinese coolies and triad member. later chosen to marry into a wealthy family of Chinese merchants, and Charlotte, a young Scots girl, sister of Singapore's Head of Police. Two souls bound together by the invisible threads of fate yet separated by bonds of tradition and culture.
ISBN:9789810575670
