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TBR (To Be Read): Ovidia Yu’s Crown Colony series mashes decolonising narratives with cosy mysteries
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Author and playwright Ovidia Yu is behind the Crown Colony mystery series.
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SINGAPORE – Post-colonial literature and cosy mysteries are not the most obvious bedfellows.
The former conjures the spectre of Serious Fiction, earnest in tone and sometimes too turgid for easy digestion. The latter genre, on the other hand, repackages the messiness of real life into easy bite-size nuggets.
