Nine Yard Sarees A Short Story Cycle

Author : Prasanthi Ram
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789811860362

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Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle by Prasanthi Ram Pdf

Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising eleven interlinked stories, this short story cycle traces the lives of nine women from 1950 all the way to 2019, shedding light on the community and its evolution through the decades. As the stories take us from India to Singapore, Australia and even America, we follow the experiences of the women in the family: Raji the matriarch who lives in seclusion at an ashram; her daughter Padma who struggles to raise her family the traditional way; Padma’s daughter Keerthana who is about to be married and don the nine yard saree, a symbol of womanhood. Tender, dynamic and full of heart, this cycle is a resonant portrayal of female solidarity and the complexities of the diasporic experience in contemporary Singapore.

Author : Mok Zining
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789811471650

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The Orchid Folios by Mok Zining Pdf

“When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

Author : Esther Vincent,Angelia Poon
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811818479

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Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore by Esther Vincent,Angelia Poon Pdf

Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ecofeminist essays focuses on the crafts, minds, bodies and subjectivities of a diverse group of women making kin with the human and non-human world as they navigate their lives. From ruminations on caregiving, to surreal interspecies encounters, to indigenous ways of knowing, these women writers chart a new path on the map of Singapore’s literary scene, writing urgently about gender, nature, climate change, reciprocity and other critical environmental issues. In a climate-changed world where vital connections are lost, Making Kin is an essential collection that blurs boundaries between the personal and the political. It is a revolutionary approach towards intersectional environmentalism.

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Fourth Estate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008609985

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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Pdf

The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan

Author : Vicky Chong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9814914061

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Racket and Other Stories by Vicky Chong Pdf

Author : Alfian Sa'at,Faris Joraimi,Sai Siew Min
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811490231

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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History by Alfian Sa'at,Faris Joraimi,Sai Siew Min Pdf

Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.

Author : Nazry Bahrawi
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789811815003

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Singa-Pura-Pura by Nazry Bahrawi Pdf

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 : Kyoko Nakajima
Publisher : Sort of Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908745972

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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima Pdf

'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past.

Author : Hanna Alkaf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534426092

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The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Pdf

Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

Author : Daren Shiau
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789811811456

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Heartland by Daren Shiau Pdf

Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new preface by author Daren Shiau and a publisher’s foreword that contextualises the novel’s imprint on the Singapore literary landscape since its first publication in 1999. An iconic work, Heartland explores the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness in fast-changing Singapore. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows the years of Wing Seng as he leaves school and is conscripted into full-time National Service. As Wing tries to reconcile his past with his future amid transitions through different phases of life, he finds meaning in his intense attachment to his surrounding landscape. Yet, as relationships and the years slip by, Wing is forced to question his own certainties and the wisdom of the people he values. Set in Singapore’s heartland at the turn of the century, Heartland’s capturing of the texture of everyday life provides the backdrop essential to the bildungsroman’s exploration of identity, belonging and connection in an increasingly urbanised Singapore.

Author : Kevin YL Tan,Terence Lee
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811807114

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Voting in a Time of Change by Kevin YL Tan,Terence Lee Pdf

GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the first Leader of the Opposition. Voting in a Time of Change is part of a longitudinal study by editors Kevin YL Tan and Terence Lee, who have been assembling trenchant analyses of each General Election by leading academics and commentators since GE2011. Their long game makes possible specific and unique insights. Of GE2020, this is what they have to say: “The major political shift in Singapore that started in 2011 is marching on, even amidst a Covid-19 pandemic that was to have been a great disrupter. Whether we call this a ‘New Normal’ – as many did back in 2011 – or otherwise is not as important as the momentum for change that has built up since then. Covid-19 thus became a political backdrop to a social and political shift that was merely searching for a catalyst.” What insights and lessons can we carry forward to the next General Elections? This is an indispensable milestone publication for citizens who wish to commit to even more informed choices, and for political observers who are keeping close tabs on the evolution of our political landscape.

Author : Cao Wenxuan
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536209990

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Dragonfly Eyes by Cao Wenxuan Pdf

A 2023 Batchelder Honor Book From acclaimed Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, comes a compelling family saga spanning fifty years and three generations. Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rare bond. Maybe it’s because Ah-Mei is the only girl grandchild. Or maybe it’s because the pair look so much alike and neither resembles the rest of their Chinese family. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a hard place to grow up, especially when racism and bigotry are rife, and everyone seems suspicious of Nainai’s European heritage and interracial marriage. In this time of political upheaval, Ah-Mei and her family suffer much—and when the family silk business falters, they are left with almost nothing. Ah-Mei and her grandmother are resourceful, but will the tender connection they share bring them enough strength to carry through? This multigenerational saga by one of China’s most esteemed children’s authors takes the reader from 1920s France to a ravaged postwar Shanghai and through the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Caron Levis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481426404

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Ida, Always by Caron Levis Pdf

Based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo, this is the story of a polar bear who grieves over the loss of his companion.

Author : Various
Publisher : Difference Engine Pte Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9811451605

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Sound by Various Pdf

Traffic. A crunchy snack. An argument. What does sound look like to you? Difference Engine is proud to present our first comics anthology, SOUND: A Comics Anthology. Writers and illustrators from all around Southeast Asia were challenged to push the boundaries of depicting the unseen through the medium of visuals and words, while telling stories important to them. Guest editors Budjette Tan and Charis Loke have put together an intriguing list of stories that showcase the creativity of creators across Southeast Asia--both familiar and new names. In a broad range of genres and topics, this collection of stories is an exciting exploration of what the comics medium is capable of.

Author : Vicky Chong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500357979

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Vicky's Writings by Vicky Chong Pdf

This is a collection of personal essays published in the blog Vicky's Writings.