Song follows one boy\u2019s journey to find his fortune from the rice fields of China to the rainforest of Guiana. This beautifully written and evocative story spans nearly half a century and half the globe \u2014 and though it is set in another century, Song\u2019s story of emigration and the quest for an opportunity to improve his life is timeless. Available in a hand luggage-friendly paperback from 18th March 2021.<\/p>\n
A beautifully told tale with fascinating historical insight’ Vanity Fair<\/p>\n
Song<\/strong><\/p>\n Michelle Jana Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n 18th March 2021 | PB \u00a39.99<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Precise, heartfelt, breathtaking . . . Song will touch you with its remarkable odyssey and \u25cf A sweeping historical epic, following one boy\u2019s journey to find his fortune from \u25cf This beautifully written and evocative story spans nearly half a century and half ‘A wonderfully lush and atmospheric odyssey of survival against all odds’ Bernardine Song is just a boy when he sets out from Lishui village in China. Brimming with courage This is only the beginning of Song\u2019s remarkable life, but as he finds himself between places About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n Whilst we still don\u2019t know exactly what Summer 2021 will look like, it\u2019s never too soon to start refining your holiday reading list. With this in mind, we wanted to flag a brilliant Unbound release which would make perfect travel companions \u2014 even if it means being transported across the world from the comfort of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":651351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651452,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651348\/revisions\/651452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ss1.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\nmake you believe in dreams again’ Elif Shafak<\/p>\n
\nthe rice fields of China to the rainforest of Guiana; by award-winning journalist
\nand travel editor of Vanity Fair, Michelle Jana Chan.<\/p>\n
\nthe globe, and though it is set in another century, Song\u2019s story of emigration and
\nthe quest for an opportunity to improve his life is timeless.<\/p>\n
\nEvaristo<\/p>\n
\nand ambition, he leaves behind his impoverished broken family hoping he\u2019ll make his
\nfortune and return home. Chasing tales of sugarcane, rubber and gold, Song embarks upon
\na perilous voyage across the oceans to the British colony of Guiana, but once there he
\ndiscovers riches are not so easy to come by and he is forced into labouring as an indentured
\nplantation worker.<\/p>\n
\nand between peoples, and increasingly aware that the circumstances of birth carry more
\nweight than accomplishments or good deeds, Song fears he may live as an
\noutsider forever.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nn1.jpg\")
\nMichelle Jana Chan is an award-winning journalist and travel editor of
\nVanity Fair in the UK, where she presents the magazine’s digital Future
\nSeries. Formerly, Michelle was a BBC TV presenter, a news producer at
\nCNN Internationaland a reporter at Newsweek. She was a Morehead-Cain
\nscholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"