Chan Ling Yap: 4 books

Book cover of New Beginnings
by Chan Ling Yap
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

In the southern Province of Guangxi amidst the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium War, a woman is kidnapped and her husband shipped out as a coolie to Singapore. Yet from despair came good fortune. Seen through the eyes of one family, this is a moving story of the scourge of opium and...
Book cover of A Flash of Water
by Chan Ling Yap
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

The year is 1883. China is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. In the countryside, antagonism against foreigners and missionaries is growing and the warlords are at large. Li Ling, a young peasant girl in China, flees to Malaya to escape being made a concubine to a warlord, only to find herself...
Book cover of Bitter Sweet Harvest

Bitter Sweet Harvest

A sequel to the acclaimed and well-loved Sweet Offerings

by Chan Ling Yap
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011

Set in a Malaysia emerging from the outbreak of racial conflict in 1969, Bitter-Sweet Harvest tells of the difficulties and tensions involved in a marriage between a Malay Muslim and a Chinese Christian. Atmospheric, dramatic, action-packed and intriguing, it is peppered with local flavour evoking the...
Book cover of Where the Sunrise is Red
by Chan Ling Yap
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

A tale of two women, their loves, lies and resilience during the Emergency in Malaya. When young and naive Ruth set out to look for her husband Mark in Malaya in 1950, little did she expect to find herself in a country split by war and ideology and a rival for her husband’s love that is as lovely...
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