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A woman fleeing her previous existence meets a fellow Singaporean on an overnight train in Norway. A foreign worker is decapitated in an HDB building site accident. A Singaporean wife must negotiate Beijing as her British husband awaits a heart transplant. And in different corners of the world, Singaporeans and exiles mark National Day in their own ways.

When Kriya follows her boss and joins a new law firm, she’s looking for a fresh start after a messy break-up. Sharing an office with her work nemesis was not what she had in mind. Charles has always played by the rules, and had clear boundaries until Kriya crashed into his space. A few too many unfortunate professional encounters has him convinced this attractive girl can’t stand him, and things only get more awkward as they are forced to work so closely together . . .

Jenny Lau always found herself sitting between cultures, connected to both east and west. Hungry to understand herself, she threw herself into researching the Chinese food of her heritage. The result is An A-Z of Chinese Food - a surprising, compelling and deliciously enriching anthology that uses food to explore who we are and how we relate to the world.

An unlikely duo—Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent philosopher and professor of bioethics, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces to talk ethics in lively conversations that cross oceans, overcome language barriers, and bridge philosophies. The eye-opening dialogues collected here share unique perspectives on contemporary issues like animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty, and more. Together, these two deep thinkers explore the foundation of ethics and key Buddhist concepts.

Fumar en una bañera no tendría nada particularmente interesante salvo si lo hacemos con alguien más, y justo eso es lo que ocurre en este libro: dos amigas se dan un baño juntas, se relajan y se fuman un cigarro mientras se expresan sus confidencias ante la perplejidad y la reconstrucción emocional a las que se ven abocadas tras salir ambas de una larga relación.

“No es ningún secreto que una conciencia puede a veces ser una plaga...” canta Bono en “The fly”, tema estrella del álbum Achtung Baby (1991) con el que U2 reinventó su sonido para la década del final de siglo, sumergiéndose en registros más electrónicos y psicoactivos. Con esos versos podemos resumir parte del ambiente de este poemario con estructura narrativa que describe los efectos de una plaga de tábanos asesinos que asolan el mundo.