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“Jason Erik Lundberg has done an outstanding job of choosing stories you will want to return to for years to come!” — Gwee Li Sui, author and illustrator of Myth of the Stone
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories Volume One
Edited by Jason Erik Lundberg
978981 0762346 Paperback, 288pp 225mm x 153mm S $24.90 UK £12.99 US $19.90 Rights: World Out in October 2013
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One curates the finest short fiction from Singaporean writers published in 2011 and 2012. This ground-breaking and unique anthology showcases stories that examine various facets of the human condition and the truths that we tell ourselves in order to exist in the everyday. The styles are as varied as the authors, and no two pieces are alike. Here are twenty unique and breathtaking literary insights into the Singaporean psyche, which examine what it means to live in this particular part of the world at this particular time. Jason Erik Lundberg, series editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author of a dozen books, including the new collection Strange Mammals; he is also the founding editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, editor of Fish Eats Lion (2012), and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (2008) and Scattered, Covered, Smothered (2004).
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