{"product_id":"corridor-12-short-stories","title":"Corridor: 12 Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfian Sa’at\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 172 pages\u003cbr\u003e9789810779931\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorridor is 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\u003e \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\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich in authentic detail, with a sensitive ear for the vernacular, Corridor paints 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorridor won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41892194549795,"sku":"9789810779931","price":21.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_7790_1cc87a07-3033-4bd6-8f14-5d06d3059a63.jpg?v=1770111819","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/corridor-12-short-stories","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}