Jeremy Tiang State of Emergency recensie en informatie roman van de uit Singapore afkomstige schrijver. Op 3 juni 2025 verschijnt bij World Editions de roman van de Singaporese schrijver Jeremy Tiang. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.
Jeremy Tiang State of Emergency recensie
- “State of Emergency is a compelling, important piece of work from one of Singapore’s finest living authors.” (The Straits Times)
- “Each of State of Emergency’s six sections, focusing on one character and period at a time, is gripping and powerfully emotive. All Tiang’s characters are well-realised, vulnerable, conflicted and forced to bear the burden of guilt for things which are beyond their control. The scars left on the extended Low family, split apart in so many ways and denied the chance to live normally together, mirror the scars etched deeply into a nation.” (The Herald)
State of Emergency
- Auteur: Jemery Tiang (Singapore)
- Soort boek: Singaporese roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: World Editions
- Verschijnt: 2 juni 2025
- Omvang: 302 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: $ 19,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de uit Singapore afkomstige schrijver Jeremy Tiang
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 is born on 17 januaray 1977 in Singapore. He 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 Cocoon for World Editions, which won the Singapore Literature Prize. He also writes and translates plays — most recently Salesman之死, which was staged at New York’s Connelly Theater and received an Obie Award. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.