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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
The Ash House
Worldwide Release - October 2021
The Tjoa ash house originally intended for ancestral tablets has
stood at the top of Kota Cahaya's exclusive Green Hill for a century.
Now, it is all drooping lintels and sagging roof; a haunted house with a
haunted heir in it--Arno Tjoa, a Barbie-doll fixated cripple whom Sister Mary Michael, the clairvoyant nun, has been sent to set free.
Arno believes that Bing Fa--the fascinating spirit of a pipa-diva trapped in a ghost marriage to his grandfather--is the key to solving the misfortunes plaguing the house. All will be well with Girl, the comatose maid he is obsessed with, Irene Tjoa his controlling aunt, and the Tjoa fortunes if Bing Fa is released from her doll-house prison.
However, as the family's skeletons are unearthed, the nun realizes it is not in her power to save everyone or everything. Who must be sacrificed? What must be left to turn to dust?
As the Heart Bones Break
Shortlisted for the 2014
Singapore Literature Prize
In Thong Tran’s Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they
seem.
But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Yearning for a true father
and a cause to give himself to, Thong chooses independence, liberty and happiness – his tutor and the Viet Cong. It is a choice with karmic consequences he will spend the next half centuryi criss-crossing the Pacific to outrun.
Can Thong set down the bones rankling in his heart?
And at what cost?
Nine Cuts
Shortlisted for the 2016
Singapore Literature Prize
A cannibal picks up a ghoul in a wet market ... A Vietnamese American grieves his lost son in Alaska ... a HDB cleaner's love for her brother can't save him when his 4D predicting dragon fish dies ... Poignant slices of heart tender, done and spoiled. Click on the buttom to read on ...
Learning to Fly
Shortlisted for the 2000
Singapore Literature Prize
Swee Lian - a girl child from the tenements venturing into an emerging post-colonial city.
John Thomas - a man from theold order in love with the rain forests that will soon die as inexorably as he must.
Two people with nothing in common except their love of trees. Can they build a life together as equals? What of John's wife Sarah? What of inevitable mortality?
Singapore Women
Re-Presented co-edited with Constance Singam
At first, there were no women at all on the official records of the new Settlement that was to become Singapore. This is the story of how they came and became visible, then gained voice and presences. Illustrated with images from the Singapore Archives, this social history told by Singaporean Women offers an alternative re-presentation of the country's evolution from mangrove fishing village to first world global city.