Song

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• 'Jana Chan has produced a wonderfully lush and atmospheric odyssey of survival against all odds. This 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
• '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

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