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Clarissa Goenawan
Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer and…
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Watersong is a spellbinding novel of loves lost and recovered, of secrets never spoken, and of how our pasts shape our futures; the newest by Clarissa Goenawan, the author of The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida.
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Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer and translator. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Singapore, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, the UK, and the US.
Watersong
A mesmerising novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan.
When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company’s most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found.
Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away from three women with water in their names, he travels to Tokyo, where he tries in vain to track Youko down. But Shouji soon realises that not everything Youko told him about herself was true. Who is the real woman he…
