The Serpent's Tooth
Pocketbok. Times Books International. 1989. 186 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Språk: Engelska. "Within each family there are the proverbial skeletons better left untouched, lest the truths uncovered became too discomfiting. One truth too many, it appears, is held up for reproach - this is a novel fraught with dashed hopes and wasted effort, and the characters grope around desperately in the murky depths of self-delusion. Hands reach beyond the grave, though, and the past returns hauntingly to horrify. Under Catherine Lim's deft treatment of Asian superstition, myth and legend, the past flows as easily and impinges onto the present as dreams and nightmares turn into alarming reality. And because the family is but a microcosm of society at large, the exposé of lacerating slings against hypocrisy and pretension is rightfully disturbing".
