Ping, the daughter of Chinatown’s Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances drive them apart. Ping is forced to leave suddenly for the USA, where she creates a different life for herself. Many years...
City of Small Blessings won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2010. A film project based on the novel has been chosen to be part of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Atelier.A Singaporean retires, migrates and then returns. But,...
The stunning first novel from award-winning poet Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza is an exceptional examination of the power of choice and the unreliability of memory. One last time and on her birthday, Rose de...
A little girl -Han is sold, aged four, as a boundmaid or slave into the House of Wu, where she grows up and falls in love with the young heir. But the idyll of childhood attachement turns into a...
Singapore – a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese...
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