Mei Ching Tan
Singapore: Ethos Books, 2012
ISBN: 9789810877545
Myths of the mountains and their spirits pervade stories of Shi Ying’s mysterious origins. Abandoned to die but saved by a villager, Shi Ying is named the “lost child” and taken into a family of fisherfolk. She does not know who her parents are, or who she is. When she befriends a village outcast with whom she feels a strange bond, her journey into the unknown, in search of her parents and her true identity, begins.
Beyond The Village Gate won a Commendation Award in the Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) in 1992 and was first published in 1994.
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