Story by Erasmus Yang
Paperback 160 pages English Aug 15, 2023
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"Sometimes our past is the only truth-teller, specially when the real-life persons are not always factual to us, or when the personal memories likewise are not so certain over the years." Such is the wisdom of kind-hearted Erasmus T. Yang, frustrated journalist wannabe and proprietor of a mama shop in the fictional Southeast Asia of Tandomon, who finds himself inadvertently embroiled in the Sino-Soviet border clashes of the late 1960s. Told by journalist and award-winning novelist, Scott Shibuya Brown, the novel takes a comic look at one ambitious man's efforts to promote a fraudulent war memorial, thereby almost precipitating international conflict through Yang's enthusiastic news reporting. Narrated in a charming first-person narrative of Singlish and Manglish (Singaporean and Malaysian English), as well as invented colloquial English, the tale is both an entertainment and a warning, in the tradition of early Naipaul, Graham Greene, and Joseph Heller. ―Julian Anderson
- Author:
- Scott Brown
- Publisher:
- Jackleg Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 15, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 160 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1956907033
- ISBN-13:
- 9781956907032