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State of Emergency
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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title Siew Li leaves her husband and young children to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian...
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Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018
Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title
Siew Li leaves her husband and young children to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency, while Siew Li's son uncovers the truth of his family's past. Informed by years of painstaking research, Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist movements and political detentions in Singapore and Malaysia. It follows an extended family from the 1940s to the present day as they navigate the choppy political currents of the region. State of Emergency questions whether we can grasp the truth after the fact. And yet, in the very telling of its interlocking stories, it reaffirms the importance of trying.
State of Emergency is a compelling, important piece of work from one of Singapore's finest living authors. The Straits Times
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781642861549
Publisher: World Editions
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 June 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: World Editions
Contributors:
- Foreword by Yu-Mei Balasingamcho
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 296
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About the Author
Jeremy Tiang won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency, and was shortlisted for the same prize for his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day. He has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including Zhang Yueran's Cocoonfor World Editions, which won the Singapore Literature Prize. He also writes and translates plays most recently Salesman, which was staged at New York's Connelly Theater and received an Obie Award. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.
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