* A new work from an award-winning Singaporean literary novelist whose works regularly grapple with change and draw attention to dying ways of life* Woven around the central theme of Chinese opera, a dying art* The narrative beginning in Guangdong, Southern China, in the 1930s, shifts between present and past, balancing accounts of present day Singapore with pre-war Malaya and the terror and chaos of the Japanese occupation of Singapore* https://suchenchristinelim.com/* Fulbright Writing Fellow, International Writing Program, University of Iowa, 1996* International Writer-in-Residence, University of Iowa, Spring 2000.