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    The Dictator's Eyebrow
    The Dictator's Eyebrow
    The Dictator's Eyebrow
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    The Dictator's Eyebrow

    By Cyril Wong

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    This is a disturbing, poetic account of an unnamed dictator’s eyebrow whose longings, delusions of grandeur, and curious influence have shaped history in ways previously unknown—until now. Within a surreal tale about an eyebrow’s thirst for recognition and power, a love story also unexpectedly emerges.

    Finalist for the Singapore Book Publishers Association Awards 2016.

    “An enthralling pyroclastic flow of poetic flagellation ripping the mask of stoic indifference and lapdog-media concocted majestic stature of a narcissistic tyrant. And every wordstroke of the poet never fails to decode and eviscerate the megalomaniac to the grave.”
    - Elangovan, recipient of the 1997 SEA Write Award

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEthos Books
    Release dateAug 5, 2023
    ISBN9789811432521
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