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State of Emergency

Jeremy Tiang

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9781642861549
UPC:
9781642861549
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Published by:
World Editions
Pub date:
06/03/2025
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
302
ISBN:
9781642861549
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"State of Emergency is a compelling, important piece of work from one of Singapore's finest living authors." -The Straits Times

Siew Li leaves her husband and young children 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, while Siew Li's son uncovers the truth of his family's past. Informed by years of painstaking research, 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.
State of Emergency questions whether we can grasp the truth after the fact. And yet, in the very telling of its interlocking stories, it reaffirms the importance of trying.