Judith Huang's Sofia And The Utopia Machine looks at social inequality in Singapore

Judith Huang's debut novel Sofia And The Utopia Machine, which has a 15-year-old girl creating a new world, looks at social inequality

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Can Singaporeans see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, as poet William Blake wrote in Auguries Of Innocence?

In Singaporean writer Judith Huang's debut novel Sofia And The Utopia Machine, it is a teenage girl from Ang Mo Kio who realises the Blakean prospect of having infinity in the palm of her hand.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 17, 2018, with the headline Judith Huang's Sofia And The Utopia Machine looks at social inequality in Singapore. Subscribe