{"product_id":"corridor-12-short-stories","title":"Corridor: 12 Short Stories◎Alfian Sa’at","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mod_b type02_m057 clearfix\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bd\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mod_b type02_m057 clearfix\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bd\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorridor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writes about HDB dwellers – students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother. A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out. A girl encounters a transvestite on an MRT train ride who tells her that she looks like a famous singer. And a man enters a discotheque after a bitter divorce and re-learns the terror of falling in love all over again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich in authentic detail, with a sensitive ear for the vernacular,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorridor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003epaints an elegiac, revealing portrait of contemporary Singaporeans who exist along the city’s corridors – haunted by lost loves, irrevocable childhoods and a deep longing to be free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorridor won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"時代精神書屋","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46634883514594,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0116\/2883\/8978\/files\/Corridor.png?v=1750218294","url":"https:\/\/www.seabreezebooks.com.sg\/en\/products\/corridor-12-short-stories","provider":"海風書屋","version":"1.0","type":"link"}