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Crossing Distance

by Tan Mei Ching
RM45.00 MYR
Crossing Distance
Crossing Distance

Cultural exploration through intimate, poetic narratives.

"Crossing Distance" offers a journey not just through the pages of a book but through the nuanced layers of human emotion and cross-cultural experiences. Mei Ching Tan's evocative storytelling and lyrical style could resonate with you if you're looking to explore complex relationships and identity while immersing yourself in a beautifully crafted literary world.

  • Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction; Merit (1994)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Crossing Distance

by Tan Mei Ching
RM45.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9789810731038
Author: Tan Mei Ching
Publisher: Ethos Books
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Poetry
Related Topics: Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 2.5
(rated by 2 readers)

Description

A child’s afternoon of play, a teenager’s notion of pain, one’s understanding of freedom, another’s glimpse of mortality, a young woman’s encounter with her cultural roots, and the individual worlds of the young and old. They reveal the distances between people and within people. Sometimes all that people do, or try to do, is cross distance. Crossing Distance won a Merit Award in the Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) in 1994 and a Commendation Award in the National Book Development Council of Singapore Book Awards in 1996. It was first published in 1995.
 

Cultural exploration through intimate, poetic narratives.

"Crossing Distance" offers a journey not just through the pages of a book but through the nuanced layers of human emotion and cross-cultural experiences. Mei Ching Tan's evocative storytelling and lyrical style could resonate with you if you're looking to explore complex relationships and identity while immersing yourself in a beautifully crafted literary world.

  • Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction; Merit (1994)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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