{"product_id":"lovelier-lonelier","title":"Lovelier, Lonelier","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt wasn't love, really. They were just trying to make\nsomething out of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKyoto, 1996, during the passing of Comet Hyakutake: A\nrunaway from Singapore discovers a woman crying in front of a train station at\n5.46am. A Straits Times journalist later arrives with her gallerist friend from\nMadrid, dreading the reenactment of her mother's performance art. The lives of\nthese four friends—Isaac, Tori, Jing and Mateo—become entangled as a result of\none madcap weekend, when fireworks are inexplicably shot over the Kamo River\nand people become swept to alternate worlds via public transport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDaryl Qilin Yam’s genre-defying second novel ranges across\ncountries and decades, charting the tributaries of pain we thread with our\nfriends and the arcs of the many stories we tell in order to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaryl Qilin Yam\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKappa\nQuartet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a novel published by Epigram Books in 2016. He is also a\nco-editor of the SingPoWriMo anthology series, a director at Sing Lit Station,\nand a stageplay producer at non-profit collective Take Off Productions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative\nWriting from the University of Warwick; he won the Second Year Prize from the\nDepartment of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and spent an\nintercalated year studying under the AIKOM program at the University of Tokyo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHis prose and poetry have been published in a number of\nanthologies and literary journals, which include \u003ci\u003eEsquire (Singapore)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLONTAR:\nThe Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOF ZOOS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQLRS\u003c\/i\u003e,\nand \u003ci\u003eCha: An Asian Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APD (S) PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44807788036303,"sku":"9789814901369","price":29.32,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_b61cee06-b00b-42d7-b44c-2ce90fcc5a73.webp?v=1777008603","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/lovelier-lonelier","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}