‘Miss Seetoh in the World’ was launched on November 24
Synopsis
Miss Maria Seetoh, a teacher of English and Literature in St
Peter’s Secondary School in Singapore, sees herself as a ‘simple
soul who only wants to be a good and happy person’, and has a dream
to write stories about ‘simple, ordinary people going about their
daily lives’. However, God/Providence/Fate/Chance, etc. decrees
otherwise. She is thrown into the tumult of a disastrous marriage
that begins as strangely as it ends, a failed love affair that
‘hollows her out’, and a controversial teaching career that ends
with her abrupt resignation. Most of all, she is caught in a
political event as shocking in its causes as in its
consequences.
Set against the backdrop of modern-day Singapore, a hugely
successful city-state grappling with changes and challenges that
could corrode the very soul, the novel ultimately examines, with
wit, wry irony and warm understanding, the unchanging quandaries of
the human condition, when love and sex, religion and politics,
tradition and modernity, can all come together in an unruly mix, to
show human nature at its most depressing and its most
inspiring.
Has anyone read
her latest book ? Is it interesting ?