{"product_id":"a-river-called-beautiful","title":"A River Called Beautiful","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingapore, 1920s: At the imposing gates of a grand mansion, a young bride from China comes to join a wealthy Teochew family ruled by a stern and forbidding matriarch. One is scholarly and gentle, the other is strong-willed and domineering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComing unexpectedly into the breach is a woman fleeing the cruelty of her own mother-in-law in China. The scenario she witnesses as the family’s baby amah – ni boh – uses to a resolve to mediate between the two, to protect and serve for the sake of what is good and precious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is this quiet devotion which young Chor Jee, granddaughter of the house, relates as, over sixty years, Ni Boh stays with the family; through the good times of the thirties, the coming of war and the terror of the Japanese Occupation, the liberation of Singapore and the swift changes of modernisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough it all, Ni Boh endures, like a gently flowing river, bearing without complaint the joys, sorrows and challenges, the accumulated memories of five eventful generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123066941553,"sku":"9789813065055","price":12.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/a-river-called-beautiful-chor-jee-chow-00.jpg?v=1602757349","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/a-river-called-beautiful","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}