![]() ![]() Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre. Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice. The neon-coloured background stamped with the white words are the work of Amanda Lee Koe, making her debut with Ministry of Moral Panic, winning awards like the Singapore Literature Prize for Best. Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial The Unbeatables. Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards 2016Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction 2014Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2014Selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015 Amanda Lee KOE (fiction writer Singapore) edits fiction at Esquire (Singapore) and the literary journal Ceriph, creative nonfiction for the magazine POSKOD, and is a co-editor of Eastern Heathens, an anthology revisiting Asian folktales.Her first book, Ministry of Moral Panic, will appear later this year. ![]()
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