Thanks to publisher Edmund Wee, editor Jason Erik Lundberg, line editor JY Yang, UK rep Kate Manning, marketing manager Winston Tay and all at Epigram Books, and to my agent Karolina Sutton.

And finally to Drayton, for all the rest.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Jeremy Tiang is a writer and translator. His short story collection, It Never Rains on National Day (Epigram Books, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize. He has translated more than ten books from the Chinese, including novels by Chan Ho-Kei, Zhang Yueran, Yeng Pway Ngon and Su Wei-chen. He won the Golden Point Award for Fiction in 2009, and has received an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and a People’s Literature Award Mao-Tai Cup. He also writes and translates plays, and currently lives in Brooklyn.

The Epigram Books Fiction Prize promotes contemporary creative writing and rewards excellence in Singaporean literature. The richest literary prize in Singapore is awarded to the Singaporean, permanent resident or Singapore-born author for the best manuscript of a full-length, original and unpublished novel written in the English language.

For more information, please visit ebfp.epigrambooks.sg