Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Singapore Noir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Singapore is exposed in all of its noir glory with scintillating stories from the very best of the city's authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Akashic Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781617752353
• ISBN-10: 1617752355
• Artikelnr.: 39566434

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is the New York-based author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family. A native of Singapore, she is working on her second book, a novel. A former staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, her work has also appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Sirens
"Last Time" by Colin Goh (Raffles Place)
"Detective in a City with No Crime" by Simon Tay, writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho (Tanglin)
"Strangler Fig" by Philip Jeyaretnam (Bukit Panjang)
"Smile, Singapore" by Colin Cheong (Ang Mo Kio) Part II: Love (or something like it)
"Reel" by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Changi)
"Mother" by Monica Bhide (Kallang)
"Kena Sai" by S.J. Rozan (Bukit Timah)
"Tattoo" by Lawrence Osborne (Geylang) Part III: Gods & Demons
"Mei Kwei, I Love You" by Suchen Christine Lim (Potong Pasir)
"Spells" by Ovidia Yu (Tiong Bahru)
"Saiful and the Pink Edward VII" by Damon Chua (Woodlands) Part IV: The Haves & The Have-Nots
"Current Escape" by Johann S. Lee (Sentosa Cove)
"Bedok Reservoir" by Dave Chua (Bedok)
"Murder on Orchard Road" by Nury Vittachi (Orchard Road)