01554cam a2200349 i 4500 801480583 TxAuBib 20230511120000.0 220111s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022001223 9780593420119 059342011X (OCoLC)1291893205 TxAuBib rda Heng, Rachel,. The great reclamation / Rachel Heng. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. 451 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel" -- Cover. "Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility--something to offer the community and impress the spirited girl he has come to love." -- Book jacket. 20230511. Gifted persons Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Villages Singapore Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Singapore Fiction. Historical fiction. Great Britain Colonies Asia Fiction. Bildungsromans.