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Yeng Pway Ngon’s last novel The Colour Of Twilight confronts a Chinese writer’s obsolescence
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The late Cultural Medallion recipient Yeng Pway Ngon’s final novel. The Colour Of Twilight, has been translated into English by Jeremy Tiang.
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By Yeng Pway Ngon, translated by Jeremy Tiang
Fiction/City Book Room/Paperback/259 pages/$23
The late Chinese-language Singaporean writer Yeng Pway Ngon’s last novel is a grim psychological portrait of a vanishing figure in Singapore – the full-time Chinese-language writer, doomed to extinction as he watches his country sell its soul to pragmatic businessmen who read finance titles in English.
