The Sheik-E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today's mass-marke...
On the eve of her mother's wake, Grace Tay flies to Singapore to join her family. There, she explores her history, looking for answers to the death. This novel evokes the life, traditions and tastes of a Chinese family, moving between Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.
