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State of Emergency

ISBN-13: 9781642861549

Author(s): Jeremy Tiang

Subjects: FA, FBA

Publisher: World Editions Ny Llc

Publisher Imprint: World Editions

Publication Date: 03-06-2025

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£15.99
State of Emergency

About the book

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.