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    Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories
    Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories
    Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories
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    Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories

    By Cyril Wong

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    --Recommended by the National Library Board, Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information-- 
    A woman learns of a friend's illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza, comes another beautiful book about characters in crisis, with two stories crossing intriguingly into creative autobiography.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpigram Books
    Release dateDec 28, 2016
    ISBN9789814615099
    Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories

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