UNDER THE BED, CONFUSION

Product DescriptionThe stories inUnder the Bed, Confusion sketch a vast range of characters: from an aging coffee shop assistant struggling on her first day at work to a multimillionaire obsessed with crossing the fourth hurdle; from a dissident doctor exiled on the island of Pulau Tekong to a pampered, carefree mutt. Using elements of the fantastical and the satirical, this collection of mini-fiction probes Singapore’s underbelly with sarcastic wit, revealing darkly humorous and philosophical insights into the many facets of her people’s collective psycheAbout the AuthorWong Meng Voon is a writer, editor and academic who has written eleven books of short stories and mini-fiction in Chinese. For his contribution to Singaporean literature and the Chinese mini-fiction form, he was awarded Singapore’s Cultural Medallion in 1981, the S.E.A. Write Award and China’s Lifelong Achievement for World Chinese Mini-stories Award. He has also been awarded the Translation Prize by the National Book Development Council of Singapore.About the Translator Howard Goldblatt has translated nearly all major Chinese contemporary novelists and more than thirty novels and short story collections by writers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. His translations of Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, Su Tong’s The Boat to Redemption and co-translation of Bi Feiyu s Three Sisters have all won the Man Asian Literary Prize.