For subscribers

The way S’pore’s landscape changes is a strange way to live: Rachel Heng, author of The Great Reclamation

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox

The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng takes a sweeping look at Singapore’s history from the 1940s to the 1960s.

The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng takes a sweeping look at Singapore’s history from the 1940s to the 1960s.

PHOTOS: JULIANA TAN, PANSING

Follow topic:

SINGAPORE – After her hugely successful Suicide Club (2018), set in a near-future New York City, Rachel Heng’s The Great Reclamation in many ways feels like a return.

For one thing, this second novel of hers is set in Singapore, where Heng, now based in New York, grew up.

See more on