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　　尤今不喜歡板著面孔說教，她愛說故事，《親愛的青蛙》一書便說了數十則趣然盎然的故事。這些以糖霜為外衣的小故事，每一則都是別有用心地包裹著“教育”這餡料的。

　　生活對於她來說，不是複印似的刻板、不是錄音似的單調。每天一睜開眼，心里便有了憧憬、期盼、嚮往，因為在屋里屋外，在或許陰暗或許明亮的角落裡，有著無數無數的驚喜在靜靜地等待著，等待她去發現、去發掘。

　　全書共分四輯。

　　第一輯〈青蛙的話〉，敘述了16則有關家庭教育的小故事；第二輯〈人生隧道〉，收錄了16則別具深意的勵志小品；第三輯〈織字成衣〉，給讀者編織了18襲有關教學與創作的彩衣；第四輯〈犛牛精神〉開了17個窗口，讓讀者窺探外面繽紛的世界。趣味盎然的故事中，含著寓意深刻的啟示。別具深意的啟示裡，藏著面目斑斕的故事。

G*D IS A WOMAN

In Singapore, there is only one rule: be careful who you troll. Frustrated by the rigid, unforgiving system in which they try to make art, a bunch of irate artists start a fake petition to cancel Ariana Grande. Things get wildly out of hand when some Singaporeans take the petition so seriously that Ari’s upcoming concert comes under threat. 

In a whirlwind of competing petitions, frantic Zoom calls between Los Angeles and Singapore, and whispered conversations at the golf course, the campaign to save the concert comes up against the most powerful people in Singapore: the easily offended. 

From acclaimed playwright Joel Tan (Tartuffe: The Imposter, The Butterfly Lovers) comes G*d Is A Woman – a scathing satire on censorship, complaint culture, and the ridiculous outbursts of moral outrage that frequently reverberate across the Singaporean internet. Directed with gleeful irreverence by Ivan Heng, this audaciously funny new play will make you laugh until it hurts.

TARTUFFE: THE IMPOSTER

A wealthy family starts to unravel when the head of the household, Orgon, befriends Tartuffe — a charming, seductive con artist masquerading as a man of faith. Everyone else smells a rat, even as Tartuffe weasels his way into Orgon’s home, heart and bank account. What will it take for Orgon to finally see the light? Can unholy disaster be averted? Or will blind devotion win the day?

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth, Wild Rice’s Tartuffe: The Imposter remains trenchantly relevant today, in a world populated by scam artists and false prophets. With an incisive new script by Joel Tan and direction by Glen Goei, this is a classic satire on religious hypocrisy and a warning about the calamity that can follow when we turn a blind eye to the dark deeds of the “pious”. Desperately trying to untangle vice from virtue is a stellar ensemble cast led by Ivan Heng and Benjamin Chow.

We Saw Mountains gathers nine stories of human and non-human daring, where quotidian life is cracked open to possibilities of autonomy and re-imagination. A teen’s part-time job tests his integrity, a grieving elephant finds a new home by way of a contested river, and on an island a mountain appears, fully formed.

Through these visionary tales, Diana Rahim—whose stories have been featured in Best New Singaporean Short Stories and The Best of World SF—asks, can we do things differently? Can we imagine a different kind of life?

Step into this spellbinding collection and witness transformations both cosmic and everyday. Journey from the desert to the oasis, from drought to bloom, and return to our world with a rekindled faith in the possibility of becoming.

Winner of the PEN Translates award

From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was part of the guerrilla forces of the Malayan Communist Party. These short stories are inspired by his experiences during his thirteen years in the rainforest.

Struggling through an arduous trek, two comrades pine for each other but don't know how to declare their love; a woman who has annoyed all her comrades finally wins their approval when she finds a mythical mousedeer; improvising around the lack of ingredients, a perpetually hungry guerrilla makes delicious cakes from cassava and elephant fat. The rainforest may be a dangerous place where death awaits, but so do love, desire and hope.

Delicious Hunger is a book about the moments in and between warfare, when hunger is so palpable it can be tasted, and the natural world becomes an extension of the body. Deftly translated by Jeremy Tiang, Hai Fan's stories are about a group of people who chose to fight for a better world and, in the process, built their own.

Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards (2016)
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction (2014)
Selected by The Business Times as a Top 10 Singapore book from (1965–2015)
Shortlisted for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Internationaler Literaturpreis
Shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s LiBeraturpreis
Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (2014)

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. Find out the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh, now 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.

Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice. 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. Told in strikingly original prose, these are stories that plough the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens.

　　尤今慣常以如刃的目光讀大地，以細膩的心思讀生活，再以璀璨的筆桿，，寫繽紛的世界。

　　她說：「小時看漫畫，常常看到牧牛的童子坐在牛背上吹笛子，因此把牛目為浪漫的象徵；年齡稍長，讀及牛的頌詩，又把牛當成是勞動的楷模。成長之後，背著行囊，足履四海，才發現牛和世間萬物一樣，沒有一個固定不變的『模式』。

　　同樣是雲，卻美醜不一。同樣是河，卻有悲有喜。同樣是泥，卻大好大壞。把囿限於模子之內的目光看世界，不但辜負了大地，也糟蹋了萬物。 」

　　《傷心的水》一書內收了一百篇袖珍小品，敘述了一百則喜怒哀樂的故事。人間有愛，萬物有情，即使是一滴水珠、一片樹葉，也有感覺，只要用心眼去體會，便能通過它們，聽到一條河、一棵樹的故事；而當小河匯人大海、小樹紮根於大地時，我們便也同時能夠聽到驚濤拍岸的澎湃、小樹紮根於大地時，我們便也同時能夠聽到驚濤拍岸的澎湃、根鬚入土的呢喃。

　　豆花不說謊。

　　當豆花那人投注了多少心力多少心思、放進了多少精神多少努力，豆花都以無聲的語言明明白白而又坦坦白白地說出來。

　　文字，也不說謊。 身為終生筆耕不輟學的人，尤今時時刻刻都在細心、虛心而耐心地聆聽她筆下的文字對她說話，分分秒秒都做好再次衝刺的；準備。

　　《豆花不說謊》一書，共分五輯，收錄了80篇小品文。

　　第一輯「愛的絲帶」，說了16則有關親情的小故事；第二輯「味蕾記憶」，藉著13道美味的食品窺探人生百態；第三輯「浮雲心情」寫的是11則足履天涯的趣聞；第四輯「百般滋味」讓讀者品嚐21則從砂礫與世界的第5節故事相讀得了第1957章的歌曲相讀。 80則故事，80樣心情。

　　80個感動，80種感悟。

　　生活圓融和諧，全因處處有愛。鑲嵌著「愛」的日子，不論是酸、甜、苦、辣、鹹，各有牽動人心處，就算是淡吧，也是足堪咀嚼的好滋味。

　　尤今以「愛心、耐心、恆心、信心」為原料，搓成堅韌亮麗的金絲銀線，以它們繡出一幅又一幅雋永的「文字圖畫」。

　　浮現在這幅色彩斑斕圖畫裡的，是觸動人心而又恆遠常新的親情、友情、愛情、師生情、主僱情、夫妻情、兩代情。本書總共收集了十三篇小說，包括了千來字的微型小說、三四千字的短篇小說和四萬餘字的中篇小說。

　　尤今以書中的小說來「練武習藝」，在創作方式和技巧上，在素材的選取和剪裁上，作了多種不同的嘗試，為她個人的小說創作開拓了一個新的面貌。

　　本書收錄了作者從80年代末至2011年創作的微型小說精選作品共48篇，反映了作者在不同的人生成長階段中對事物的不同體會和感受，其中大部分反映了現今社會中父母與子女之間親情密度的有待考量，人情的冷漠、社會的光怪百態。

　　同時附上四篇來自中國和本地作家、學者的評論，希望讀者們能從中對作品有更深一層的認識與了解。

作者簡介

　　艾禺原名劉桂嵐，新加坡作家協會副會長，世界華文微型小說研究會副秘書、世界海外華文女作家會員，創作體裁以微型小說和兒童文學為主，作品包括《困鳥》（短篇小說）、《風雲再起》（微型小說）、《艾禺禺的《花神》《最後一束小花》（小花本媽媽的故事）、《藍色小說》（《小花》（微小說）、《新花本》的小花本》（微小說）（微小說）、《新花本》（微小說》）的《新花本》）小說了《新本》（《白色媽媽》年小說）、《鏡子裡的秘密》（少年小說）和《天狼星遊戲事件簿》（少年小說）、《海魂》（短篇小說集）、《奇怪的畫像》（小飛魚讀本系列）、《窗內窗外》和《假書》（百果香系列-新加坡花園）、《大白小司庫》和《大小小女教育》和《大小書》和《小老師》和《小老師》）、《大白小小教師》和《大小書》和《小老師》和《小女孩》和《小老師》。主編作品：《逍遙曲》《城市的記憶》《城市的足音》，新加坡作家協會刊物《新華文學》編委。

　　《艾禺微型小說》曾獲選為 2006年「讀吧，新加坡」全民閱讀活動讀物之一。多次在文藝創作比賽中得獎。

　　曾任新傳媒華文戲劇組故事策劃、編審、編劇二十餘年，現為駐校作家兼自由撰稿人。