Kappa Quartet

Kappa Quartet PDF Author: Daryl Qilin Yam
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814757764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire nothing more than the souls of other humans. Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the rippling effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, connected and bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous. Together they ask one another: what does it mean to be in possession of something nobody has seen before?

Kappa Quartet

Kappa Quartet PDF Author: Daryl Qilin Yam
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814757764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Book Description
Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire nothing more than the souls of other humans. Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the rippling effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, connected and bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous. Together they ask one another: what does it mean to be in possession of something nobody has seen before?

Nimita's Place

Nimita's Place PDF Author: Akshita Nanda
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814785776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573

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It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home. In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home. Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?

The Gopher

The Gopher PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Band Eight

Band Eight PDF Author: Tham Cheng-E
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814655074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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In the Nation, citizenship is competitively earned, and the sting of failure strikes swift. The smallest professional blemish may spell demotion or even deportation to offshore labour communities called Depositories, while the affluent are insured against all misfortune and can do no wrong. Santhosh is a Transient student hoping to ace the Civil Primaries and make Citizen the following year, when his father is suddenly deported and State agents murder his guardian’s entire family. Adopted by a motley band of fugitives who hold wealthy Citizens ransom for a shot at freedom, Santhosh searches for his father and struggles to keep his integrity in a world where the only true choices are luxuries.

The Last Immigrant

The Last Immigrant PDF Author: Lau Siew Mei
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 981478513X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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By the author of Playing Madame Mao, hailed by Time magazine as "one of the best novels ever written about Singapore". Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing. In Lau Siew Mei’s new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants.

Lieutenant Kurosawa's Errand Boy

Lieutenant Kurosawa's Errand Boy PDF Author: Warran Kalasegaran
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814785075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2016 Longlist During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, an eight-year-old Tamil boy is separated from his father, forced to work for the Kempeitai and renamed Nanban. From Lieutenant Kurosawa Takeshi, he learns their language and customs, studies their martial arts and prays to their Emperor. While watching the cruelty with which the Imperial Army rules Singapore, Nanban becomes just as ruthless to survive. Twenty years later, a young misfit strives to make a successful living as a seamstress. Papatti is swept up in her ambition, trying to drum up crowds and get featured in the national newspapers, when she meets a cunning politician and an eager dockworker who both try to win her attention. Then she is faced with a harrowing loss, and is forced to find her place in a new world. Over decades of tempestuous history, the lives of Nanban, Papatti and Lieutenant Kurosawa intertwine in surprising and powerful ways, and beg the question: how is reconciliation possible in the face of war and heartbreak?

The Gatekeeper

The Gatekeeper PDF Author: Nuraliah Norasid
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9811700966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title & Best Book Cover Design Winner of the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shorlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2018 When young medusa Ria inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and love…until her friendship with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to protect.

Kappa Delta Phi Roll Call

Kappa Delta Phi Roll Call PDF Author: Kappa Delta Phi
Publisher:
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Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The Movie That No One Saw

The Movie That No One Saw PDF Author: May Seah
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814845159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Finalist for the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Adjonis Keh (the “d” is silent) is a successful actor who apparently has everything: looks, adoration, a shelf filled with acting awards, and all the vanilla yogurt he can eat (thanks to a hefty endorsement deal). He also has a dark secret: he can’t act. So far, he has managed to fool the world with a clever little trick—until the day he meets an inquisitive young journalist whose unexpected friendship causes him to question everything in his life.

18 Walls

18 Walls PDF Author: Teo Xue Shen
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814655449
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This action-packed thriller follows a squad of 18-year-olds who must fight an army of Savages in a war they did not choose. Ren is an elite fighter who feels no emotions. That makes him the perfect soldier to battle the Savages, a feral army of half-animal, half-human species prowling outside the 18 walls protecting the city...at least that’s what the propaganda machine will have him believe. He and his motley squad are armed with genetic enhancements before venturing beyond the walls. They come to learn more about themselves and their enemies than they could have ever imagined.