The bondmaid

Catherine Lim

Original title: The Bondmaid

first published 1995 Catherine Lim Pub., 1995 379 pages

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.

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The Bondmaid paperback · 1999 · Orion mass market paperback · 384 pages · 9780752825946
The Bondmaid edition · 1998 · Grand Central Publishing · 368 pages · 9780446607346
The bondmaid edition · 1997 · Overlook Press · 319 pages
The bondmaid edition · 1995 · Catherine Lim Pub. · 379 pages

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