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Lions in Winter Paperback – September 1, 2009

by Wena Poon (Author)
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Five million English-speaking Chinese, Indians and Malays live in Singapore today - an artificial port city created entirely by British traders in the 19th century. The Singapore-born, multi-lingual American writer Wena Poon describes herself and her fiction as an "accident of history." She charts the 21st century journey of Singaporeans as they settle in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, London, Perth and Toronto. In her vivid stories, Poon captures the true urban sophistication of New Asia and the journey of an eclectic people coming to terms with their cultural legacy.
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  1. Print length
    152 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Salt Publishing
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2009
  5. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.35 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1844715760
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1844715763
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Salt Publishing (September 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844715760
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844715763
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.35 x 8.5 inches
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    Wena Poon is an American novelist and photographer. Her first novel Alex y Robert, about a Texan woman bullfighter in Spain, was adapted by the BBC and broadcast as a 10-episode Radio 4 series. Her play The Wood Orchid, about the Chinese woman warrior Hua Mulan, was professionally staged in Westminster Abbey, London by the Bush Theatre. Author of 16 books of literary fiction, she won the UK's Willesden Herald Short Story Prize and was nominated for France's Prix Hemingway and the UK's Bridport Prize for Poetry. She was also a two-time nominee for Ireland's Frank O'Connor Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. Wena is known for her work on diaspora culture, transnational identity, and gender roles. She has been interviewed for her work by the BBC, Huffington Post, Vice, Marie Claire, The Japan Times, South China Morning Post, and The Straits Times. Since 2011, her short stories have been studied by thousands of high school students in Singapore sitting for the Cambridge GCSE O Level Exams in English Literature. They have also been studied by British, American, Hong Kong and Singapore academics as examples of transnational literature. Born and raised in Singapore, Wena graduated magna cum laude in English Literature from Harvard College and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is a lawyer by profession.www.wenapoon.com

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  • Suzi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lions in Winter
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2013
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    Love this book. The characters leap off the page so true to life and sympathetic. My world has been enlarged through her writing. A young Asian man sent to London to be a doctor by his parents but finds he loves fashion struggles with pursuing his dream and confronting his parents whose dream was for him to be a successful doctor. Then there is the old woman having to move but at the last minute takes a cutting from her pomegranate tree, a small touching symbol of hope and life.

    Whether it is the young and successful or the old person leaving her home of many years the stories are vibrant and filled with insight.

    Now to read her other books.
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  • William Smock
    5.0 out of 5 stars When are you coming home?
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2009
    Are all stories, from "The Odyssey" to "Harry Potter," about family? Yes! Is this true even when a family stretches halfway around the world, when they love and misunderstand each other in two or three languages? Even more so! That kind of family life occurs in intense bursts, via phone calls and answering machine messages, or in rare visits that tend to precipitate crises.

    Wena Poon, whose home is Singapore (or is it San Francisco?), dances gracefully around this volcano in her story collection "Lions in Winter." The short story form -- its varied angles and characters - spares us from a Balzacian immersion in rancor. Instead we get sharply observed glimpses of people whose global straddle - one foot in a Chinese family in Singapore, the other in the West - gives their modest lives an element of high drama.

    Poon stays miles away from the cliches of immigrant fiction (maybe because the Chinese in Singapore are already immigrants?). Her hip American children are just as funny as her kvetching Singapore Moms. Her dialogue sounds right. She offers vivid pictures of a MacMansion in Toronto, a backroom beauty parlor in Singapore, Chinese New Year in snowy Flushing. Her last story, "The Shooting Ranch," has far more to offer than this glib summary could possibly suggest.
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