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“They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I continue to live in all the shadows of your longing. I will always be in your sleep and your wakefulness. I will be with you praying, propitiating and yearning for you, in sadness, in sorrow, in dismay and in the most profound happiness.”

Loss Grief Fiction Novel Mourning Translation Epigram Books Sglit Widower Sg Lit Alfian Sa At Latiff Mohamed Latiff Mohamed The Widower

Book:The Widower

Source: The Widower

“I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.”

Loss Grief Fiction Novel Mourning Translation Epigram Books Sg Lit Alfian Sa At Latiff Mohamed Latiff Mohamed The Widower

Book:The Widower

Source: The Widower

“Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.”

Love Death Loss Grief Fiction Novel Mourning Singapore Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Alfian Sa At Latiff Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Book:The Widower

Source: The Widower

“I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Singapore Poland Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin In Time Out Of Place

Book:In Time, Out of Place

Source: In Time, Out of Place

“The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.”

Fiction Short Story Short Stories Singapore Translation Czech Republic Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin In Time Out Of Place

Book:In Time, Out of Place

Source: In Time, Out of Place

“I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.”

Winter Middle East Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin Death By Perfume Mongkol Sheds Tears

Book:Death by Perfume

Source: Death by Perfume

“Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears. Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence. And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.”

Night Middle East Translation Epigram Books Sglit Sg Lit Jeremy Tiang You Jin Death By Perfume Mongkol Sheds Tears

Book:Death by Perfume

Source: Death by Perfume