Sing to the Dawn

Sing to the Dawn

Sing to the Dawn is a story by the American author Minfong Ho, which was originally published as a short story and was awarded first prize by the Council of Interracial Books for Children in New York in 1975. It was later extended to a full-length novel. Dawan, a young village girl who lives in Thailand, wins a scholarship to study in a city school. Her brother, Kwai, places second and is initially jealous, causing a rift between the two previously-close siblings. This hostility is further exacerbated by Dawan's father, who feels that the city is no place for a girl. Dawan faces obstacles at...
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quick facts
Author:Minfong Ho
Genre:Short story, Fiction
Year published:1975
Number of editions:6

Author of Sing to the Dawn

Minfong Ho
Minfong Ho
Age:61
Birthplace:Yangon

Minfong Ho is an award-winning Chinese-American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries. Despite being fiction, her stories are always set against the backdrop of real events, such as the student movement in Thailand in the 1970s and...
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Literary Genres

Short story
Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    What year was the book "Sing to the Dawn" first released?
  • A:
    The work was first released to the public in 1975.
  • Q:
    The book, "Sing to the Dawn" covers what subject area?
  • A:
    "Sing to the Dawn" is cataloged in the category: Music and Thailand
  • Q:
    "Sing to the Dawn" is in what literary genre?
  • A:
    The written work is labeled as- Short story and Fiction.

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