The Epigram Books Collection Of Best New Singaporean Short Stories

Author : Pooja Nansi
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814845472

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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories by Pooja Nansi Pdf

The best short fiction published by Singaporean writers in 2017 and 2018. The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2017 and 2018, selected by guest editor Pooja Nansi from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading. Reader Reviews "The stories range from intimate family portraits to speculative science fiction, but every piece speaks to universal experiences of love, loss, desire, and disappointment ... If you've either never read Singaporean literature, this would be a good place to start. If Crazy Rich Asians was the last thing you read by a local author, even better." — Wonderwall.sg

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814901154

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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories by Anonim Pdf

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2019 and 2020, selected by guest editor Balli Kaur Jaswal from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections.

Author : Jason Erik Lundberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Short stories, Singaporean (English)
ISBN : 9810762348

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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories by Jason Erik Lundberg Pdf

Author : Yeoh Jo-Ann
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814845137

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Impractical Uses of Cake by Yeoh Jo-Ann Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sukhin is a thirty-five-year-old teacher who lives alone. His life consists of reading, working and visiting his parents’ to rearrange his piles of “collectibles”. He has only one friend, another teacher who has managed to force Sukhin into a friendship by sheer doggedness. While on an errand one afternoon in Chinatown, he encounters a homeless person who recognises him. This chance reunion turns Sukhin’s well-planned life upside down, and the pair learns about love and sacrifice over their shared fondness for cake.

Author : Robert Yeo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Short stories, Singaporean (English)
ISBN : 9812356029

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Singapore Short Stories by Robert Yeo Pdf

Author : O Thiam Chin
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814757294

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Now That It's Over by O Thiam Chin Pdf

--Winner of the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize-- During the Christmas holidays in 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that devastates fourteen countries. Two couples from Singapore are vacationing in Phuket when the tsunami strikes. Alternating between the aftermath of the catastrophe and past events that led these characters to that fateful moment, Now That It’s Over weaves a tapestry of causality and regret, and chronicles the physical and emotional wreckage wrought by natural and manmade disasters.

Author : Ng Yi-Sheng
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789811700750

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Lion City by Ng Yi-Sheng Pdf

A man learns that all the animals at the Zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters to the gods. A prince falls in love with a crocodile. A concubine is lost in time. The island of Singapore disappears. These are the exquisitely strange tales of Lion City, the first collection of short fiction by award-winning poet and playwright Ng Yi-Sheng. Infused with myth, magical realism and contemporary sci-fi, each of these tales invites the reader to see this city-state in a new and darkly fabulous light. Reader Reviews: "Being a big of science fiction and not much of a fan of Singapore, I see Ng Yi-Sheng's collection of short stories in Lion City as the perfect publication for me. He's done amazingly well at capturing the imagination of this 22nd Century Neo-Taoist!" —Seelan Palay, artist, in "My Book of the Year 2018", Singapore Unbound "This collection takes apart the tropes trumpeted ad infinitum about Singapore - the Lion City, gone from fishing village to having great food and a world-class airport - and reveals the magic of myth that underpins them all. The stories, with their subtle explorations of colonialism, capitalism and alienation, are delightful and discomfiting in equal measure. [...] Ng shows not just keen awareness of the existing canons of genre, but a blithe faith that Singapore belongs in these canons. This clever, colourful collection certainly makes a good case for that." —Olivia Ho, Straits Times

Author : Akshita Nanda
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785778

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Nimita's Place by Akshita Nanda Pdf

It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home. In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home. Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?

Author : M. Shanmughalingam
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789810756239

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Marriage and Mutton Curry by M. Shanmughalingam Pdf

A kimono-clad Tamil woman greets Japanese soldiers at the door while her Anglophile husband cowers in his Jaguar. Two sisters share a husband when one fails to produce a child for the longest time. An American diplomat's urgent inquires about the Malaysian treasury’s facilities are hilariously misunderstood. A daring civil servant proposes to a Ceylonese lady in his hometown mere minutes after meeting her, breaking a thousand years of marriage protocol. M. Shanmughalingam's debut collection paints, with gentle wit and humour, the concerns and intrigues of the Jaffna Tamil community in Malaya. At turns satirical, empathetic and insightful, these fifteen stories explore what happens when we hold on to—and choose to leave behind—our traditions and identities in a changing world.

Author : Jason Lundberg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502984822

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Fish Eats Lion by Jason Lundberg Pdf

Fish Eats Lion collects the best original speculative fiction from Singapore - fantasy, science fiction, and the places in between - all anchored with imaginative methods to the Lion City. These twenty-two stories, from emerging writers publishing their first work to winners of the Singapore Literature Prize and the Cultural Medallion, explore the fundamental singularity of the island nation in a refreshing variety of voices and perspectives. This anthology is a celebration of the vibrant creative power underlying Singapore's inventive prose stylists, where what is considered normal and what is strange are blended in fantastic new ways. "Lundberg combines accessibility with a uniquely Singaporean flavor in his selections. SF readers looking to expand their horizons will enjoy visiting new worlds from an unaccustomed point of view." - Publishers Weekly "I doubt I'll read a more engaging collection this year. [...] There's a rich optimism to be found here that speaks of lesser-known spec-fic writers rising to a challenge, and that challenge being more than adequately met." - Pete Young, Big Sky "Entertaining in this post-colonial era, it hints at how storytellers can become mythmakers, with the power to change the world." - Akshita Nanda, The Straits Times

Author : Daryl Qilin Yam
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814757768

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Kappa Quartet by Daryl Qilin Yam Pdf

Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire nothing more than the souls of other humans. Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the rippling effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, connected and bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous. Together they ask one another: what does it mean to be in possession of something nobody has seen before?

Author : Jason Erik Lundberg
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789814655118

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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories by Jason Erik Lundberg Pdf

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two gathers twenty-four of the finest stories from Singaporean writers published in 2013 and 2014, selected from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. These pieces examine life in Singapore, as well as beyond its borders to Toronto, California, Shanghai, Andhra Pradesh, Pyongchon and Paris, as well as to the distant past and the far future. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s introduction and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading.

Author : Cyril Wong
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785297

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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories by Cyril Wong Pdf

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2015 and 2016, selected by guest editor Cyril Wong from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading. This volume features short story contributions from Eva Aldea, Joelyn Alexandra, Jennifer Anne Champion, Andrew Cheah, Clara Chow, Noelle Q. de Jesus, Melissa De Silva, SC Gordon, Jon Gresham, Philip Holden, Amanda Lee Koe, Su Leong, Leonora Liow, Manish Melwani, Sam Ng, Nuraliah Norasid, O Thiam Chin, Jollin Tan, Verena Tay, Jason Wee, Daryl Qilin Yam, Yeo Wei Wei, Yeoh Jo-Ann, Yeow Kai Chai, Ovidia Yu, and Andrew Yuen.

Author : Nuraliah Norasid
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789811700965

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The Gatekeeper by Nuraliah Norasid Pdf

Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title & Best Book Cover Design Winner of the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shorlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2018 When young medusa Ria inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and love…until her friendship with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to protect.

Author : Quek Hong Shin
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789814655057

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The Amazing Sarong by Quek Hong Shin Pdf

Isn’t a sarong just a boring big piece of cloth? What can be so amazing about it? Nora and Adi are about to go to the beach when their mother takes off her baby sling and hands it to the two children. They discover that there is more than meets the eye to this seemingly ordinary sarong. Join Nora and Adi as they go on a playful day out and discover what unexpected fun, joy and new encounters the sarong can bring.