Now That It's Over<Winner of the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize> During the Christmas holidays in 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that devastates fourteen countries. Two couples from Singapore are vacationing in Phuket when the tsunami strikes. Alternating between the aftermath of the catastrophe and past events that led these characters to that fateful moment, Now That It’s Over weaves a tapestry of causality and regret, and chronicles the physical and emotional wreckage wrought by natural and manmade disasters. |
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O Thiam Chin. “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” —TONI MORRISON “The heart is but the beach beside the sea that is the world.” —CHINESE PROVERB PART ONE 1 AI LING The body lies on the.
O Thiam Chin. “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” —TONI MORRISON “The heart is but the beach beside the sea that is the world.” —CHINESE PROVERB PART ONE 1 AI LING The body lies on the.
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... body—a woman in her midthirties—has brought along a school of dead fish, mostly red snappers and garoupas that the fishermen in the vicinity hunt for their livelihood; the decomposing piscine bodies litter the beach, their silvery ...
... body—a woman in her midthirties—has brought along a school of dead fish, mostly red snappers and garoupas that the fishermen in the vicinity hunt for their livelihood; the decomposing piscine bodies litter the beach, their silvery ...
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... body shrieks with pain. A frayed stalesmelling blanket is draped over me, looking as though sewn together with different rags. The air in the room is warm, almost suffocating. I manage to lean up onto one elbow; I appear to be in the ...
... body shrieks with pain. A frayed stalesmelling blanket is draped over me, looking as though sewn together with different rags. The air in the room is warm, almost suffocating. I manage to lean up onto one elbow; I appear to be in the ...
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... body shines against the white bedsheet; her fingers twitch, the wedding ring catching the pale light from the window, flashing once, twice. The man bends down to the bed, hesitating over whether to wake the woman. He breathes in the ...
... body shines against the white bedsheet; her fingers twitch, the wedding ring catching the pale light from the window, flashing once, twice. The man bends down to the bed, hesitating over whether to wake the woman. He breathes in the ...
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