{"product_id":"the-last-immigrant","title":"The Last Immigrant","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\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\u003eLonglisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/LastImmigrant-Sample.pdf?587708953711753633\"\u003eLook inside the book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead on Kindle: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07N7KVFY7\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Lau_Siew_Mei_The_Last_Immigrant?id=kZSFDwAAQBAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle Play\u003c\/a\u003e    \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.storytel.com\/sg\/en\/books\/783483-The-Last-Immigrant?utm_source=Epigram\u0026amp;utm_medium=TheLastImmigrant\"\u003eListen to the audiobook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the author of \u003cem\u003ePlaying Madame Mao\u003c\/em\u003e, hailed by \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine as \"one of the best novels ever written about Singapore\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsmael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Lau Siew Mei’s new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLau Siew Mei \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born and raised in Singapore. She is the author of two \u003ci\u003ePlaying Madame Mao\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dispeller of Worries\u003c\/i\u003e, and a children’s illustrated middle grade book, \u003ci\u003eYin’s Magic Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer short stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service and ABC Radio National, and published in Australia, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. She has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Best Emerging Queensland Author in the QLD Premier’s Literary Awards, commended in the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, awarded Australia Council and Arts Queensland literary grants, a Varuna Residential Writers’ Fellowship and an Asialink Literature Residency in Malaysia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Immigrant\u003c\/i\u003e is her third novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Epigram Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1319790968857,"sku":"9789814785129","price":26.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/EBFP-LastImmigrant-CVF-300.jpg?v=1627025311","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-last-immigrant","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}