Burn After Dawn
by Chim Sher Ting
From the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims of Singapore’s surrender in 1945. The weighty records of the Japanese Occupation are questioned: air raids, the Battle of Opium Hill, the Alexandra Hospital massacre, Sook Ching, Kempeitai anarchy, comfort women stations.
These, bound up with terrible family accounts, are examined through poetic lenses, sometimes magnified, other times widened, but unremittingly focused
Size: 130 x 195 mm
Extent: 88 pp
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 138 g
ISBN 978-981-94-0760-6
by Chim Sher Ting
From the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims of Singapore’s surrender in 1945. The weighty records of the Japanese Occupation are questioned: air raids, the Battle of Opium Hill, the Alexandra Hospital massacre, Sook Ching, Kempeitai anarchy, comfort women stations.
These, bound up with terrible family accounts, are examined through poetic lenses, sometimes magnified, other times widened, but unremittingly focused
Size: 130 x 195 mm
Extent: 88 pp
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 138 g
ISBN 978-981-94-0760-6
by Chim Sher Ting
From the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims of Singapore’s surrender in 1945. The weighty records of the Japanese Occupation are questioned: air raids, the Battle of Opium Hill, the Alexandra Hospital massacre, Sook Ching, Kempeitai anarchy, comfort women stations.
These, bound up with terrible family accounts, are examined through poetic lenses, sometimes magnified, other times widened, but unremittingly focused
Size: 130 x 195 mm
Extent: 88 pp
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 138 g
ISBN 978-981-94-0760-6