Whimsical misfits confront supernatural in Singapore.
"The Minorities" offers a special blend of heartwarming camaraderie amidst chaos. Suffian Hakim weaves humor with the supernatural, spotlighting Singapore's cultural backdrop. If you're drawn to stories that encapsulate the spirit of unlikely friendships and the fight against societal boundaries, you'll find this blend of magical realism and social commentary compelling.
- Singapore Book Award Nominee for Best Book Cover Design (2019)
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ISBN: 9789814655279
Authors:
Suffian Hakim
Publisher: Epigram Books
Date of Publication: 2018-10-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.63
(rated by 168 readers)
Description
Meet Cantona, a promising Bangladeshi artist on the run; Tights, an illegal immigrant from China obsessed with Forrest Gump; and Shanti, an Indian lab technician hiding from her abusive husband. They all share an HDB flat with a Malay-Chinese-Muslim-Jewish Singaporean who is trying to get his father to return as a ghost...and haunt him. When a forlorn pontianak begins troubling them instead, the four friends find themselves embroiled in a showdown that may just upend the world, or at least Singapore.
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Whimsical misfits confront supernatural in Singapore.
"The Minorities" offers a special blend of heartwarming camaraderie amidst chaos. Suffian Hakim weaves humor with the supernatural, spotlighting Singapore's cultural backdrop. If you're drawn to stories that encapsulate the spirit of unlikely friendships and the fight against societal boundaries, you'll find this blend of magical realism and social commentary compelling.
- Singapore Book Award Nominee for Best Book Cover Design (2019)
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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