9781956907032

Story by Erasmus Yang

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ISBN13: 9781956907032

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"Sometimes our past is the only truth-teller, specially when the real-life persons are not always factual to us, or when the personal memories likewise are not so certain over the years." Such is the wisdom of kind-hearted Erasmus T. Yang, frustrated journalist wannabe and proprietor of a mama shop in the fictional Southeast Asian of Tandomon, who finds himself inadvertently embroiled in the Sino-Soviet border clashes of the late 1960s. Told by journalist and award-winning novelist, Scott Shibuya Brown, the novel takes a comic look at one ambitious man's efforts to promote a fraudulent war memorial, thereby almost precipitating international conflict through Yang's enthusiastic news reporting. Narrated in a charming first-person narrative of Singlish and Manglish (Singaporean and Malaysian English), as well as invented colloquial English, the tale is both an entertainment and a warning, in the tradition of early Naipaul, Graham Greene, and Joseph Heller.

ISBN-13

9781956907032

ISBN-10

1956907033

Weight

0.54 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.37 x 9.00 In

List Price

$17.00

Format

Paperback

Pages

149 pages

Publisher

Jackleg Press

Published On

2023-08-15



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