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The Singapore Grip
First edition
AuthorJ. G. Farrell
LanguageEnglish
GenreBritish colonial fiction
Postcolonial literature
PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date
1978
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages558
ISBN0-297-77445-X
Preceded byThe Siege of Krishnapur 

The Singapore Grip is a novel by J. G. Farrell. It was published in 1978, a year before his death.

In 2015, The Straits Times' Akshita Nanda selected The Singapore Grip as one of ten classic Singapore novels. She wrote, "Neatly weaving in snappy, comic summaries of Singapore history as well as the commercial and cultural forces that shaped the trajectory of World War II in South-east Asia and China."

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