{"product_id":"the-witch-doctors-daughter","title":"The Witch Doctor's Daughter","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/TheWitchDoctor_sDaughter_Sample.pdf?v=1653015993\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLook inside the book\u003c\/a\u003e   |   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfies.com\/ebook\/887\/the-witch-doctors-daughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eGet the e-book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSafiyya loves her charlatan parents, but after years of watching the heartbroken and grieving come to them for fake and futile spiritual aid, she has had enough. So she leaves the Water Village to stay with her mother's people at the longhouse in the jungle, where she learns traditional medicine, meets an enigmatic linguist and finds herself caring for an orphaned newborn. Along the way, Safiyya must discover what she truly wants from life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A deeply moving tale of female self-discovery, and also a Brunei that I never knew existed—a society in the 90s shaped by relative poverty, animist tradition, religious flexibility, the wilderness of the jungles, the freedom of the waters and, above all, the strange and not-completely-untraumatic process of blossoming into a modern, developed nation.” \u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eNg Yi-Sheng\u003c\/strong\u003e, multi-award-winning author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/lion-city\"\u003eLion \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/lion-city\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCity\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I couldn’t put down Kathrina Mohd Daud’s beautiful, exuberant coming-of-age tale. Safiyya is a heroine for all of us: unruly, brilliant and absorbing as she grapples with indigenous beliefs and modern knowledge, going between the jungle and the Water Village. I was riveted.” \u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eSunisa Manning\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/a-good-true-thai\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Good True Thai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKathrina Mohd Daud\u003c\/strong\u003e lives and writes in Brunei Darussalam. She is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-fisherman-king\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fisherman King\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize) and \u003cem\u003eThe Halfling King\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). She holds a PhD in Writing from the University of Manchester (2011), and is currently an Assistant Professor in Universiti Brunei Darussalam’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Epigram Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39771754102897,"sku":"9789814984317","price":26.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/TheWitchDoctor_sDaughter.jpg?v=1651634894","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-witch-doctors-daughter","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}