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The Earnest Mask

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Description:In this Singapore Literature Prize-winning collection of stories, an aging Japanese ex-soldier, ignorant about the horrors of the Japanese Occupation, returns to Singapore for a nostalgic visit; a young boy’s sole contact with his father consists of a weekly meeting at McDonald’s; and a hopeful employee tries to win over his tumour-stricken boss with traditional Chinese medicine. Set against the backdrop of Singapore’s rapid development from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the poignant and witty stories in The Earnest Mask peel back the veneer of official history, revealing flashes of the personal stories buried beneath.Chia Hwee Pheng has published eight books in Chinese, including the poetry collection Kidnapping Times and the fiction collection The Unbearable Heaviness of Life, under the pen name, Xi Ni Er. He has received the S.E.A. Write Award, the National Book Development Council of Singapore’s Book Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. He was awarded Singapore’s Cultural Medallion in 2008. Currently he serves as president of the Singapore Association of Writers. This is his first book to be translated into English.Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin are the translators of the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novel, Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu. Their translation of Chu T’ien-wen’s Notes of a Desolate Man won the American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award in 2000. Goldblatt is also the translator of Nobel Prize Winner Mo Yan's work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Earnest Mask. To get started finding The Earnest Mask, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 208

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Epigram Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 9810736592

Description: In this Singapore Literature Prize-winning collection of stories, an aging Japanese ex-soldier, ignorant about the horrors of the Japanese Occupation, returns to Singapore for a nostalgic visit; a young boy’s sole contact with his father consists of a weekly meeting at McDonald’s; and a hopeful employee tries to win over his tumour-stricken boss with traditional Chinese medicine. Set against the backdrop of Singapore’s rapid development from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the poignant and witty stories in The Earnest Mask peel back the veneer of official history, revealing flashes of the personal stories buried beneath.Chia Hwee Pheng has published eight books in Chinese, including the poetry collection Kidnapping Times and the fiction collection The Unbearable Heaviness of Life, under the pen name, Xi Ni Er. He has received the S.E.A. Write Award, the National Book Development Council of Singapore’s Book Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. He was awarded Singapore’s Cultural Medallion in 2008. Currently he serves as president of the Singapore Association of Writers. This is his first book to be translated into English.Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin are the translators of the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novel, Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu. Their translation of Chu T’ien-wen’s Notes of a Desolate Man won the American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award in 2000. Goldblatt is also the translator of Nobel Prize Winner Mo Yan's work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Earnest Mask. To get started finding The Earnest Mask, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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