ARBAHAM PROMISE - PHILIP JEYARETNAM

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ARBAHAM PROMISE

                                                                   - PHILIP JEYARETNAM

 

                Philip Jeyaretnam Abraham Promise 1995 the reflective and retrospective musings of the first person narrator play a crucial role in the development of the theme. The protagonist Abraham Isaac comes from the Ceylonese community and speaks English as if he was educated at Oxford.

        It won a highly commended book award from the national Book National book Development council of Singapore. It is novel regrets for action not taken and unspoken words it is eloquent in the sparness of its prose and gradual unveiling of the Narrator self description.

            The novel can be read as part allegory and part queer literature. It tells the story of a father rejection of and then coming to terms with his son homosexuality. Its intellectual touch stone is the political culture of post colonial Singapore where many feel marginalized with little promise of relief in personal or professional life.

            Abraham Isaac is a Latin. He is a philosopher. After many years he has a young pupil Richard. While teaching he has past memories about Rose his first love mercy his stubborn sister and most of all about Rani his beloved wife. He remembers his young days of promise when he actively participated in the politics of Singapore in 1950s and 1960s. Days when culture and society of Singapore were defined and moulded.

            Days when he thought he had an important role to plays as the proud citizen of a new country. But now he is old and is distanced from a present devoid of idealism and obsessed with power and money. Abraham is separated from his son victor who is strong and successful. Descending into the past Abraham is led from the promise of youth through cynicism born of experience to an understanding and reconciliation of his life and times hard won in maturity.

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