{"product_id":"singapore-noir","title":"Singapore Noir","description":"\"The 14 contributors to this all-original anthology, Singapore natives and non-natives alike, expose the Asian city state in all its noir glory.\"--Publishers Weekly, Spring AnnouncementLaunched with the summer ’04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.Brand-new stories by: Colin Goh, Simon Tay\/Donald Tee Quee Ho, Philip Jeyaretnam, Colin Cheong, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Monica Bhide, S.J. Rozan, Lawrence Osborne, Suchen Christine Lim, Ovidia Yu, Damon Chua, Johann S. Lee, Dave Chua, and Nury Vittachi.From the introduction by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan:“Say Singapore to anyone and you’ll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum.For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore--a modern Southeast Asian city-state perched on an island on the tip of the Malay Peninsula--has been marked largely by its government’s strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them...As much as I understand these outside viewpoints, I have always lamented that the quirky and dark complexities of my native country’s culture rarely seem to make it past its borders...Beneath its sparkling veneer is a country te","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":49201246241049,"sku":"PR1309.N65","price":16.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49201246273817,"sku":"PR1309.N65","price":14.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":49201246306585,"sku":"PR1309.N65","price":12.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":49201246339353,"sku":"PR1309.N65","price":12.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/30024559.jpg?v=1720084264","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/singapore-noir","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}