Book jacket image for The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

Riverhead

9780593420119

STARRED REVIEW

The Great Reclamation

The prose in Rachel Heng’s second novel, set in 20th-century Singapore, is alive. Each character is rich with complexity and depth, each snapshot brimming with imagery.

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Review of ‘The Great Reclamation’

There are magical islands in Rachel Heng’s Singapore, replete with fish; there are competing political factions and questions of power and control; there are familial relationships and love interests in a world that is being dissolved and rebuilt. This is the realm of Heng’s second novel, The Great Reclamation, upon which she…

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