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Download or read book Annabelle Thong written by Imran Hashim and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beng Beng Revolution written by Lu Huiyi and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beng Hock and his brother, Beng Huat (who prefers to go by Archibald), find themselves navigating a tumultuous Singapore in the near future that has run out of oil and gas. Running afoul of the growing gangs could mean slavery or death, jobs are scarce and food scarcer, and home is a crumbling shanty-town behind the City Hall Steam-Engine Station. And as if these changes aren’t drastic enough, a great power awakens inside Beng Hock, and he must learn how to control it before it destroys everyone and everything in his way.
Download or read book Nimita's Place written by Akshita Nanda and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book Kappa Quartet written by Daryl Qilin Yam and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Book Synopsis Surrogate Protocol by : Tham Cheng-E
Download or read book Surrogate Protocol written by Tham Cheng-E and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2016 Finalist Landon Locke is no ordinary barista. A man of many names and identities, he has lived though many lifetimes, but his memory spans only days. Danger brews as Landon struggles to piece together reality through his fog of amnesia. A mysterious organisation called CODEX bent on hunting him down, a man named John who claims to be a friend, and women from Landon's past who have come back to haunt him. As CODEX closes in, he finds himself increasingly backed into a corner. Battling an unreliable memory, Landon is forced to make a choice: who can he trust?
Book Synopsis If It Were Up to Mrs Dada by : Carissa Foo
Download or read book If It Were Up to Mrs Dada written by Carissa Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is National Day. It is also Cheryl Dada’s birthday. As Elderflower Home prepares for the celebration, Cheryl Dada too gets ready for her party. Between the hours of noon and seven p.m., she encounters the cantankerous residents and caregivers, her mother and people of yesteryears. What unfolds is a story about a woman coming to terms with age, loss and love.
Book Synopsis Impractical Uses of Cake by : Yeoh Jo-Ann
Download or read book Impractical Uses of Cake written by Yeoh Jo-Ann and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Misdirection written by Ning Cai and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in an exciting new YA mystery trilogy about a teenage savant on the trail of her family's killer, from the multi-talented Ning Cai, international magic celebrity and author. When parkour champion Maxine Schooling wakes from a three-year coma, she has no memory of how her parents and little brother were killed the night she was attacked. Using her new-found photographic memory, she covertly helps her hacker BFF with the police investigation of a savage serial killer on the loose. In her race to track down the Singapore Spectre, Max finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy involving stage illusions, a secret exposé, and a controversial megachurch headed by a powerful man. For over a decade, Ning Cai was known as a multi-award-winning stage illusionist and escape artist. After a brief period of retirement, she returned in 2017 as the mentalist Ning: Mind Magic Mistress. Her memoir Who is Magic Babe Ning? was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize.
Download or read book Fox Fire Girl written by O Thiam Chin and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Immigrant by : Lau Siew Mei
Download or read book The Last Immigrant written by Lau Siew Mei and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Now That It's Over by : O Thiam Chin
Download or read book Now That It's Over written by O Thiam Chin and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: --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.
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Download or read book The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories written by and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Sofia and the Utopia Machine: A Novel by : Judith Huang
Download or read book Sofia and the Utopia Machine: A Novel written by Judith Huang and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sofia is an ordinary schoolgirl living in a future Singapore where the population is divided into three social strata. When she inadvertently unlocks the gateway to a new world, she realises she must escape the government’s radar. She ventures into the lowest rung of society, the Voids, and meets with the eccentric Uncle Kirk and the resourceful Father Lang. While on the run, she learns why her father disappeared seven years ago and why the new world exists in the first place.
Download or read book 9th of August written by Andre Yeo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six suicide bombers have slipped into Singapore. Their mission: to set off explosives on the country’s 55th National Day. They were sent by Tun, an Afghan with a tragic past. Trying to stop them is Inspector Rahim, who is tracking a new terror group. And caught up in the plot is Henry, a single parent whose wife revealed a terrible secret on her deathbed.
Download or read book The Riot Act written by Sebastian Sim and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions abound in the aftermath of the Little India riot. Hashwini wonders if she triggered the chaos. Jessica asks if she should reveal what truly happened in the ambulance. Sharon thinks that the catastrophe could be what she needs to boost her political career. The lives of three women intertwine when accident and coincidence collide. In Gimme Lao!-style hilarity, they become wrapped up in a web of truth, deception and political connections. This is a perceptive, fast-paced romp that asks “what if” of the riot that recently shook Singapore.
Book Synopsis Altered Straits by : Kevin Martens Wong
Download or read book Altered Straits written by Kevin Martens Wong and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate 1947 filled with mystical creatures, Singapuran boy-soldier Naufal Jazair is bonded to the merlion Bahana and enlisted in a war against an aggressive neighbour. Meanwhile, in a dystopian Singapore in 2047, SAF officer Titus Ang is tasked with entering Naufal’s universe and retrieving a merlion to save the future of Singapore from the Concordance, a hive intelligence that is close to consuming what remains of humanity.
Download or read book Sugarbread written by Balli Kaur Jaswal and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. She seeks clues in Ma’s cooking when she’s not fighting other battles—being a bursary girl at an elite school and facing racial taunts from the bus uncle. Then her meddlesome grandmother moves in, installing a portrait of a watchful Sikh guru and a new set of house rules. Old secrets begin to surface but can Pin handle learning the truth?