{"product_id":"we-do-not-make-love-here-paperback","title":"We Do Not Make Love Here (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2024 (Fiction in English)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2024 (Best Debut: Fiction in English)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChandru, a third-generation Singaporean, realises his ambition through an arranged marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His wife, Meera, fights her fate by living a double life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Unhappily married, they make sense of their decisions through a study of their own past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiddharth, their only son, is practically raised next door with their neighbour’s granddaughter Malli.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the childhood best friends grow up, they helplessly watch their tumultuous love tear them apart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA generation raised on the Singaporean dream gives birth to another sheltered in its shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They are not the marginalised or the oppressed, merely the majority doing their best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eNisha Mehraj\u003c\/span\u003e left full-time teaching and became a private tutor so she could pursue writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only home she has ever known is Singapore, yet she lives vicariously through her characters and escapes into the safety of the worlds she creates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was her grandmother’s passion for life that fuelled Nisha's own ambitions; she'd like to think she made her proud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her short story “Chai” was published in Mascara Literary Review in 2012. We Do Not Make Love Here is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APD (S) PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45010590630095,"sku":"9789814984690","price":29.32,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_5d6f7f91-c8ec-4eab-acab-6b37a2ffe336.jpg?v=1777454814","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/we-do-not-make-love-here-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}