State of Emergency

Ranked #53 in Malaysia

Winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize


Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Years later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator.

Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist movements and political detentions in Singapore and Malaysia. It...
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