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State of Emergency

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14 Ratings

3.6

Duration
7H 44min
Language
English
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Fiction

Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru 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. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator.

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. What happens when the things that divide us also bind us together?

© 2017 by Jeremy Tiang. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.

© 2019 Storyside (Audiobook): 9789178897421
© 2018 Epigram Books (Ebook): 9789811700989

Release date

Audiobook: 7 August 2019
Ebook: 1 October 2018

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