Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels

Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status

With original illustrations by Ian Falconer

or of our possibilities

the malevolent King of the Old Ones gathers his forces in Oblivion: a desolate landscape where the last survivors of humanity must fight the ultimate battle

Breaking the Tongue : A Novel Condition:Like New Humans today enjoy unprecedented levelsThis brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Siok, whose sage advice falls on deaf ears. Expatriates, spies, fifth columnists, and nationalistsincluding the