Ministry of Moral Panic

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  • Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Nominee for Zoë Beck (2017)
  • Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction (2014)
  • Singapore Book Award for Fiction (2016)
  • Frankfurt Book Fair LiBeraturpreis Nominee (2017)
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Ministry of Moral Panic

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ISBN: 9789810757328
Authors: Amanda Lee Koe
Publisher: Epigram Books
Date of Publication: 2013-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asia, Queer, Asian Literature, LGBT
Goodreads rating: 4.1
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Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial The Unbeatables.Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre. Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice.
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