{"product_id":"the-angel-tiger-and-other-stories","title":"The Angel Tiger and Other Stories","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner for the 2020 Singapore Book Awards \u003c\/strong\u003e(Best Book Cover Design) \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/TheAngelTiger-Sample.pdf?977\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLook inside the book\u003c\/a\u003e   |   Get the E-book on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07ZZ7VT74\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=wPO7DwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the complex bonds between lovers are unravelled to the point of breaking, and the often strange and touching ways we define ourselves and our relationships in a fluctuating world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Droll, whimsical and tender, these stories feature individuals teetering delicately on the edge, waiting to fall into each other or into a startling revelation about themselves.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Cyril Wong, award-winning author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.epigrambooks.sg\/products\/ten-things-my-father-never-taught-me\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTen Things My Father Never Taught Me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Barrie Sherwood’s deft hands, the most banal aspects of daily life morph into the weird and wondrous—airports evolve into dystopian landscapes, dead city birds mutate into sacred offerings, high-end supermarkets transform into museums of treasure. Like all the best writers, Sherwood shows us the incontrovertible magic in the mundane. Tender, funny and laced with a dash of the absurd, these stylish stories will seduce, intrigue and most of all, endure.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Kirstin Chen, author of \u003cem\u003eBury What We Cannot Take\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Beneath the placid surface of these stories lies all the pain and joy of human life as people struggle—sometimes quietly, sometimes less so—to make sense of their place in a changing, multicultural world. Barrie Sherwood has created some truly memorable characters who act as a reflecting pond to our own hopes and insecurities.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e—Tash Aw, critically acclaimed author of\u003cem\u003e We, The Survivors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Barrie Sherwood has created some truly memorable characters who act as a reflecting pond to our own hopes and insecurities.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Tash Aw, critically acclaimed author of We, The Survivors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarrie Sherwood\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two novels: \u003cem\u003eThe Pillow Book of Lady Kasa\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003eEscape from Amsterdam\u003c\/em\u003e (2007). A Hong Kong native of Canadian and French nationality, he now lives in Singapore and is the assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. This is his first-short story collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Epigram Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29252861132913,"sku":"9789814845281","price":20.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/TheAngelTiger-CVF-300.jpg?v=1626947271","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-angel-tiger-and-other-stories","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}