{"product_id":"vanishing-point-pos","title":"Vanishing Point","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\u003eLonglisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3,000 people go missing every year in Singapore. Why do they go missing? What do they leave behind?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFelix Cheong’s \u003cem\u003eVanishing Point\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the first work of fiction by a Singapore writer to be inspired by real-life cases of missing persons. These stories do not speculate where these people have gone to but are a creative leap-off to explore the theme of absences and obsessions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the story, ‘In the Dark’, a man who is obsessive-compulsive about white cleans his wife - literally - out of his life. In ‘Remember the Wormhole of 2030’, the prime minister of a small island nation abducts her ex-lover to prevent a scandal from exploding. In ‘The 10th Floor’, a crooked accountant has to deal nightly with strangers coming to his flat asking for a floor that doesn’t exist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are stories suffused with a sharp sense of the surreal and the satirical, compared by writers like Daren Shiau and Boey Kim Cheng to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. Weaving in poetic turns of phrase for which he is known for, Cheong shows us how we often reach the vanishing point in the horizon even if we may not have physically vanished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e“Full of trickery, like the illusionist in You Will Be Out like a Light, the sleights-of-hand echoing Murakami, but distinctly Singaporean and Cheong's. The dark humour, the surreal and macabre touches, the trenchant wit and well-observed details are mesmerising and subtly satirical, subversive of the values of the global city, which should be enthralled and surprised by its images caught in the mirrors of these pages.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_boey-kim-cheng\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_boey-kim-cheng\"\u003eDr Boey Kim Cheng\u003c\/a\u003e, Senior lecturer, University of Newcastle, and poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Felix Cheong has a powerful narrative idea: to look on the world we know from the station of an exit door. Each eventual non-closure is certain and deafening – but how do stories sound at the point just before words fall over the edge? These are unnerving, wonderfully nasty tales.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_gwee-li-sui\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_gwee-li-sui\"\u003eDr Gwee Li Sui\u003c\/a\u003e, Literary critic, poet, and graphic artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"... one of the most unique publications by a local author to appear on our shelves in a long time.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Cyril Wong, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003etwo-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/products\/animal-season-pos\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/products\/animal-season-pos\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnimal Season\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/products\/this-side-of-heaven\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/products\/this-side-of-heaven\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Side of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFelix Cheong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a well-known figure in the Singapore literary scene and the author of eight books, including four volumes of poetry (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Watch The Stars Go Out\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSudden In Youth\u003c\/em\u003e) and two young adult novels. His third poetry collection, Broken by the Rain (2003), was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and his collection of short stories,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVanishing Point\u003c\/em\u003e, was long-listed for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award in 2013. His work has been widely published in journals, anthologized and featured on radio and TV. Felix has been invited to writers’ festivals all over the world, including Edinburgh, West Cork, Sydney, Christchurch and Hong Kong. Recently, he has also published satirical flash fiction in\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSingapore Siu Dai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSingapore Siu Dai 2\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2000, he was conferred the Young Artist of the Year Award by the National Arts Council. Felix holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Queensland and is currently an adjunct lecturer with Murdoch University, University of Newcastle, LASALLE College of the Arts and Temasek Polytechnic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20962263466097,"sku":"9789810733865","price":20.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/vanishingpt.jpg?v=1598869881","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/vanishing-point-pos","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}