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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... knocks. The shadows hesitate, then move away, footsteps fading down the corridor. You stay very still, close your eyes and wait to fall into the deep well of your dark, swirling thoughts. 3 CHEE SENG A sharp smell assaults my senses as.
... knocks. The shadows hesitate, then move away, footsteps fading down the corridor. You stay very still, close your eyes and wait to fall into the deep well of your dark, swirling thoughts. 3 CHEE SENG A sharp smell assaults my senses as.
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O Thiam Chin. 3. CHEE SENG A sharp smell assaults my senses as I stir awake. The hard, woodplanked bed beneath me creaks as I try to move; every stiff muscle in my body shrieks with pain. A frayed stalesmelling blanket is draped over me ...
O Thiam Chin. 3. CHEE SENG A sharp smell assaults my senses as I stir awake. The hard, woodplanked bed beneath me creaks as I try to move; every stiff muscle in my body shrieks with pain. A frayed stalesmelling blanket is draped over me ...
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... smell emanating from her body. The sound of waves grows louder, more insistent. He turns back to the window, to the world outside the room. The sky is grey, made impenetrable by a thick bank of ashy clouds. He opens the balcony door and ...
... smell emanating from her body. The sound of waves grows louder, more insistent. He turns back to the window, to the world outside the room. The sky is grey, made impenetrable by a thick bank of ashy clouds. He opens the balcony door and ...
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... smells of minty toothpaste and lavenderscented talcum powder. Wei Xiang stares in the mirror at the sagging eye bags ... smell, then dries his face. After stepping out of the toilet, he wonders where Ai Ling could have gone so early. She ...
... smells of minty toothpaste and lavenderscented talcum powder. Wei Xiang stares in the mirror at the sagging eye bags ... smell, then dries his face. After stepping out of the toilet, he wonders where Ai Ling could have gone so early. She ...
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... smells, begin to make themselves known, little by little, as my mind struggles to make sense of these new, strange ... smell of garlic and eucalyptus hangs in the air, prickling my senses. My stomach rumbles with hunger, and then I ...
... smells, begin to make themselves known, little by little, as my mind struggles to make sense of these new, strange ... smell of garlic and eucalyptus hangs in the air, prickling my senses. My stomach rumbles with hunger, and then I ...
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