Buy My Beloved Country by Lee Chiu San from Ethos Books is published today in paperback priced in local currencies.
Chinese naval vessels threaten Philippine patrol boats off the shores of the Philippines. China claims sovereignty over the Spratleys in the South China Sea. China unilaterally establishes an East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone.
We're all used to the headlines. And we all know too that East Asia could become a military hotspot. This is the background to Buy My Beloved Country.
What would happen if citizens of the tiny city-state of Singapore found their island nation at the very heart of global geopolitics? What would happen if, as a pawn in the deadly serious global game, the country was made an offer that spelled wealth for every citizen; every man, woman and child?
Lee imagines heart-wrenching discussions taking place everywhere from the coffee stalls where workers congregate, to the rarefied dining rooms of the nation’s elitist clubs. In the run-up to a referendum in which Singaporeans will have to make the hardest choice, the arguments threaten to divide families and friends.
In this chillingly plausible page-turner, journalist-turned-novelist Lee Chiu San, examines the relationship between a country and its citizens. Are the ties that bind them purely financial or more emotionally deep-rooted?
New and Notable
Body Boundaries is an anthology of works by twenty‐seven women writers from Singapore, edited by Tania De Rozario, Zarina Muhammad, and Krishna Udayasankar, published in paperback, priced in local currencies.
Comprising works of poetry and prose, the collection breaks down barriers between public and
private, and personal and political, to reveal both collective and diverse experiences threaded together by identity markers of gender and geography.
The collection is the first volume of a series by EtiquetteSG, a multidisciplinary platform dedicated to developing and showcasing art, writing, film and music created by women in
Singapore. It is published by the Literary Centre, Singapore.
