Corridor 12 Short Stories
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Corridor
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Author : Alfian Sa'at
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Corridor written by Alfian Sa'at and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Short stories, Singapore (English) categories.
Corridor 12 Short Stories
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Author : Alfian Sa'at
language : en
Publisher: Ethos Books
Release Date : 2023-05-25
Corridor 12 Short Stories written by Alfian Sa'at and has been published by Ethos Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writes about HDB dwellers – students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success. The characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother. A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out. A girl encounters a transvestite on an MRT train ride who tells her that she looks like a famous singer. And a man enters a discotheque after a bitter divorce and re-learns the terror of falling in love all over again. Rich in authentic detail, with a sensitive ear for the vernacular, Corridor paints an elegiac, revealing portrait of contemporary Singaporeans who exist along the city’s corridors – haunted by lost loves, irrevocable childhoods and a deep longing to be free. Corridor won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998. “Alfian’s stories are significant as they articulate with a critical eye the concerns of minorities, groups that do not or cannot fit the societal norms.” – Paul Tan, The Straits Times “His poet’s eye for freeze framing moments and his command of the language are still very much in evidence in the elegant turns of phrase and the flashes of poetic insight.” – Ong Sor Fern, The Straits Times "The magic of Alfian’s writing is no sleight of hand. It’s no illusion. It’s real.” – Haresh Sharma, playwright of Off Centre
A Monsoon Feast Short Stories To Celebrate The Cultures Of Kerala And Singapore
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Author : Shashi Tharoor
language : en
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Release Date : 2012-11-01
A Monsoon Feast Short Stories To Celebrate The Cultures Of Kerala And Singapore written by Shashi Tharoor and has been published by Monsoon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Fiction categories.
Across the seas, the winds blow between two lands, whispering back and forth what is seen, heard, tasted, smelt, felt in each place: the green trees, the tropical heat, the lush rain, the peoples of enterprise and culture, the aromas of different flavours and more. A Monsoon Feast is the point at which these winds intermingle, their conversation celebrating the best of what Singapore and Kerala (India) have to offer. "A Monsoon Feast" comprises seven short stories by renowned writers from Kerala and Singapore that provide deep insights on the various concerns and ways of life of both communities. The collection, featuring a foreword by author and poet Professor Kirpal Singh, includes stories by well-known author Shashi Tharoor, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning author of twelve books, including "The Great Indian Novel", and inaugural Singapore Literature Prize winner and popular author Suchen Christine Lim. Also featured are works by authors Felix Cheong, Jaishree Misra, O Thiam Chin, Anjali Menon and Verena Tay. A unique literary collaboration, "A Monsoon Feast" intimately connects the reader to the heart of two similar and yet different cultures.
The Feathered Bone
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Author : Julie Cantrell
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2016-01-26
The Feathered Bone written by Julie Cantrell and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Fiction categories.
“Feathers—no matter what size or shape or color—are all the same, if you think about them. They’re soft. Delicate. But the secret thing about feathers is . . . they are very strong.” In the pre-Katrina glow of New Orleans, Amanda Salassi is anxious about chaperoning her daughter’s sixth-grade field trip to the Big Easy during Halloween. And then her worst fears come true. Her daughter’s best friend, Sarah, disappears amid the magic and revelry—gone, without a trace. Unable to cope with her guilt, Amanda’s daughter sinks into depression. And Amanda’s husband turns destructive as he watches his family succumb to grief. Before long, Amanda’s whole world has collapsed. Amanda knows she has to save herself before it’s too late. As she continues to search for Sarah, she embarks on a personal journey, seeking hope and purpose in the wake of so much tragedy and loss. Set amidst the murky parishes of rural Louisiana and told through the eyes of two women who confront the darkest corners of humanity with quiet and unbreakable faith, The Feathered Bone is Julie Cantrell’s master portrait of love in a fallen world.
One Fierce Hour
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Author : Alfian Sa’at
language : en
Publisher: Landmark Books Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2014
One Fierce Hour written by Alfian Sa’at and has been published by Landmark Books Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Poetry categories.
One Fierce Hour is Alfian Sa’at’s first and breakout work. It was hailed as ‘truly a landmark’ for Singaporean poetry when it was published in 1998 when the poet was just 21 years old. Since, then it has been kept in print and has entered the list of canonical anthologies of Singapore literature. The collection contains the anti-anthem “Singapore You Are Not My Country” written well before social media gave voice to dissent and different views of Singapore. Alfian remains an intelligent writer with an unabashedly social and political voice. He has written 37 plays, 3 works of prose and 2 poetry anthologies.
The Best Of Me
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Author : David Sedaris
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-11-03
The Best Of Me written by David Sedaris and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Humor categories.
What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveler's lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say 'give it to me' in five languages and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird. But if all you expect to find in Sedaris's work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these pages, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms - at long last - with the other. Taken together, the stories in The Best of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expected - it's often harder, more fraught and certainly weirder - but sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful. Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called 'the funniest man alive' (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing - quite often at himself - and invites readers deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.
The Black Corridor
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Author : Michael Moorcock
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-09-20
The Black Corridor written by Michael Moorcock and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Fiction categories.
The world is sick. The Forces of Chaos have energised the planet. Leaders, führers, duces, prophets, visionaries, gurus, and politicians are all at each others' throats. And Chaos leers over the broken body of Order. So Ryan freezes his family into suspended animation and sets off for the planet Munich 15040, five years distant. There he will re-establish Order in a New World - and create a happier, healthier, saner and more decent society with the ones he loves. But they are suspended. And they cannot talk. And he is alone in space. And he has been travelling for three years. And he will still be travelling two years hence, and he cannot see his destination, and he is ALONE and LOST and CRACKING UP...
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
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Author : Haruki Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-10
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman written by Haruki Murakami and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-10 with Fiction categories.
An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's characters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all. 'An intimate pleasure' The Times
On Chesil Beach
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Author : Ian McEwan
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2008-06-10
On Chesil Beach written by Ian McEwan and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-10 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s wedding night. “No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." —The Washington Post Book World It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
The Book Of Lost Things
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Author : John Connolly
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-11-07
The Book Of Lost Things written by John Connolly and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-07 with Fiction categories.
A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.