This remarkable novel tells the moving story
of Han, aged four and the youngest daughter of
an impoverished family. Sold as a slave into the
House of Wu, she quickly forms a close bond
with the young heir, but the idyll of childhood
attachment quickly turns into a nightmare of
frustrated passion as Hart reaches her teens--
beautiful, proud and in love with the young
master. Her life becomes a struggle against
the forces of tradition and tyranny in a world
where lustful male relatives use bondmaids for
indiscriminate pleasure, visiting monks devise
ingenious schemes to combine holy public
duty with unbridled private indulgence, and
gods and goddesses, with careless insouciance,
smile to see the human drama unfold.
Catherine Lira, Singapore s top novelist,
decided to take the risk of self-publishing this
extraordinary book rather than bow to her
publisher s demands to dilute the controversial
and heady story of a young girl sold into slavery
in contemporary Singapore. Her gamble paid
off--The Bondmaid struck a dazzling chord with
readers and became a number-one bestseller in
Singapore and an international sensation, with
editions in six countries. At once a powerful
study of domestic and sexual slavery and a
deeply disturbing and radiantly uplifting story,
The Bondmaid captures the special ethos of a
wealthy and powerful Chinese household in an
era of beauty and brutality and chronicles one
woman s love--right to its astonishing climax.
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