{"product_id":"9789810779931","title":"Corridor: 12 Short Stories","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003eCorridor\u003c\/span\u003e is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writes about HDB dwellers – students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother. A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out. A girl encounters a transvestite on an MRT train ride who tells her that she looks like a famous singer. And a man enters a discotheque after a bitter divorce and re-learns the terror of falling in love all over again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich in authentic detail, with a sensitive ear for the vernacular, \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003eCorridor\u003c\/span\u003e paints an elegiac, revealing portrait of contemporary Singaporeans who exist along the city’s corridors – haunted by lost loves, irrevocable childhoods and a deep longing to be free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003eCorridor won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48219093434603,"sku":"EB_LI0708_B01-01_RC","price":21.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9789810779931-1.jpg?v=1785767693","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9789810779931","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}