Vyvyane Loh
Author of Breaking the Tongue
About the Author
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Works by Vyvyane Loh
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Loh, Vyvyane
- Legal name
- Loh, Vyvyane Hui-Shien
- Other names
- Luo Huixian
罗惠贤 - Birthdate
- 20th century
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Malaysia (birth)
Singapore
USA - Birthplace
- Ipoh, Malaysia
- Places of residence
- Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- Boston University (B.S.|Biology)
Boston University Medical School (M.D.)
Warren Wilson College (M.F.A.|Creative Writing) - Occupations
- Choreographer
Physician
novelist - Agent
- Brettne Bloom
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Statistics
- Works
- 1
- Members
- 157
- Popularity
- #133,743
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 2
This is a remarkable novel, brutal to read. Loh writes beautifully, but traverses time schemes with such fluency that for many pages it is the surreal that dominates. Yet then, suddenly, Singapore which nonchalantly was not going to fall has fallen and there is no time for pretense. The unglamorous Australians and the rather pathos-laden British are gone, and the Chinese whose lives were sublimated under the rule of a people who do not exists are left to survive a new oppression, and that doesn't matter either because ... time. And throughout the tale the central figure slowly grows into an understanding of what it means to be timeless, to be guided, to know what he is not (European), to so that he has seen heroism and defeat and life and death but why?
And what does it all mean? It is a chilling novel, but strangely comforting, for in the end perhaps we are all the myrmidons, crossing, in an indirect path, the horizons. This reviewer cannot tell the tale, but stands in awe of the author who tantalized and told so much about indomitable human spirit and meaninglessness of oppression.… (more)