State of Emergency Condition:Like New "Six minutes from now

"Six minutes from now

As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end

But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00 a faint electrical crackle is perceptible

competition judge Louise Gluck hails the "cumulative

not on disruptions

State of Emergency Condition:Like New "Six minutes from nowWinner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction. Finalist for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Years later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut