Ministry of Moral Panic
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[Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards 2016]
[Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction 2014]
[Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2014]
[Selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015]
Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial The Unbeatables.
Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre. Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Every sentence, every word, slices the characters like a blade and the rawness within explodes in the reader’s mind. Literary genius at its best.