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State of Emergency


Publisher: Epigram Books
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  • Shortlisted for NUS Singapore History Prize 2021
    Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2018, Fiction
    Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title
    Finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 
    2016

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    Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru 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. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator.

    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. What happens when the things that divide us also bind us together?

ISBN: 9789811700927
Cover Type: Paperback
Page Count: 280
Year Published: 2017
Size: 225mm x 152mm