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- ISBN 9781642861549
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2025
- Publisher: World Editions
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jeremy Tiang won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency, and was shortlisted for the same prize for his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day. He has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including Zhang Yueran's Cocoonfor World Editions, which won the Singapore Literature Prize. He also writes and translates plays most recently Salesman, which was staged at New York's Connelly Theater and received an Obie Award. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.
