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| Author | : J.G. Farrell |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 2010-11-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590174178 |
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end. A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began withTroubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.
| Author | : Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
| Publisher | : NUS Press |
| Total Pages | : 705 |
| Release | : 2009-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9971694581 |
A comprehensive historical anthology of English-language literary works from Singapore. It attempts to place the texts that have imagined the territory and the people who are now recognizably Singaporean in a historical narrative, to be read, studied, critiqued and treasured.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 685 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Chinese fiction |
| ISBN | : 9789971882488 |
| Author | : Lau Siew Mei |
| Publisher | : Epigram Books |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2019-01-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 981478513X |
By the author of Playing Madame Mao, hailed by Time magazine as "one of the best novels ever written about Singapore". Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing. In Lau Siew Mei’s new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants.
| Author | : Nazry Bahrawi |
| Publisher | : Ethos Books |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2022-08-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9811815003 |
From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Bahrawi brings together an exciting selection of never-before translated and new Malay spec-fic stories by established and emerging writers from Singapore. Especially in an anglophone-dominated genre, very little of Malay speculative fiction from Singapore is known to readers here and beyond. Yet contemporary Bahasa literature here is steeped in spec-fic writing that can account as a literary movement (aliran)—and unmistakably draws from the minority Malay experience in a city obsessed with progress.
| Author | : Verena Tay |
| Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9814625507 |
What does it mean to love and be loved in Singapore? Singapore Love Stories is a vibrant collection of seventeen stories that delves into the diverse love lives of Singapore’s eclectic mix of inhabitants. From the HDB heartlander to the Sentosa millionaire, the privileged expatriate to the migrant worker, the accidental tourist to the reluctant citizen, the characters in this anthology reveal an array of perspectives of love found in the island city-state. Leading Singaporean and Singapore-based writers explore the best and worst of the human condition called love, including grief, duplicity and revenge, self-love, filial love, homesickness and tragic past relationships. Collectively, the stories in this anthology reveal the many ways in which love can be both a salve and a wound in life. Featuring stories by Audrey Chin, Heather Higgins, Elaine Chiew, Damyanti Biswas, Jon Gresham, Verena Tay, Shola Olowu-Asante, Clarissa N. Goenawan, Raelee Chapman, Wan Phing Lim, Kane Wheatley-Holder, Vanessa Deza Hangad, Jing-Jing Lee, Alice Clark-Platts, Melanie Lee, Marion Kleinschmidt and S. Mickey Lin.
| Author | : Edwin Thumboo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 732 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Chinese fiction |
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| Author | : Low Kay Hwa |
| Publisher | : Goody Books |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2013-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9810700628 |
Listed as a national bestseller in Singapore for about half a year, A Singapore Love Story charts the tragic relationship of a couple trying to be together, ignoring the harsh knocks of reality. Can they bend reality for love, or will reality bend their lives? Print Book Price: RM45.89 / SGD$17.90 / USD$14.29 Note: Just like the physical copy, the novel starts with Chapter -5 followed by Chapter 1. Full Money-back Guarantee Your satisfaction is our priority. Don't like the story after purchasing it? Simply refund it from Google Play Book with a click (if purchase is made within seven days), or email us. No questions asked.
| Author | : National Library (Singapore). Fiction and Literature Committee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 13 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Singapore fiction |
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| Author | : Angelia Poon |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2017-03-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131530774X |
This book brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a global audience for the first time, embedding it within literary developments worldwide. Drawing on postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine texts in relation to their local-historical contexts while engaging with contemporary issues in Singapore society. It sets new directions for further scholarship on a body of writing that has much to say to those interested in issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism, immigration, urban space, and literary form and content.
