A novella shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize (Fiction in English)

Recipient of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize Readers’ Favourite English Book

Snow falls over Singapore for exactly four minutes and twenty-six seconds, quietly interrupting the lives of a dozen individuals, lonely and adrift: an art student and a former fling, chancing upon one another at Punggol MRT station; two men awake at 4am, watching YouTube videos of hail falling over the island nation; a sugar baby trawling through Google Maps, exploring the homes and neighbourhoods of her former clients...

Witness the near-miraculous ways passers-by can transform the trajectories of one another’s lives.

Shantih Shantih Shantih is a heady mix of desire and dauntlessness that revels in its interconnections, pulling close a community that is at once together and apart.