The Bondmaid

By Catherine Lim

Subjects: Slaves, Enslaved persons, fiction, Fiction, Singaporean fiction (Chinese), Singapore, fiction, Chinese fiction, Chinese, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Slaves, fiction, Fiction, general

Description: Set in Singapore in the fifties, the novel focuses on the story of Han. Sold as a slave into the House of Wu at the age of four, she forms a close bond with the heir of the household, but the idyllic childhood soon turns into a life of struggling against tradition and tyranny.