What Gives Us Our Names (Rosetta Edition)
by Alvin Pang
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Year Published: May 2024 Pages: 96pp Language: English Retail Price: SGD20 (Singapore) Dimensions: 190x130mm ISBN: 978-981-18-6986-0 (Paperback) Buyer Request: Final PDF Available Publisher/Imprint: Roetta Cultures (Singapore) Rights Available: World Suggested Categorisation: Creative Prose, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature |
Highlights:
- Report by The Straits Times, Singapore Top 10 Bestseller for 2 consecutive weeks across bookstores in Singapore.
- Sold over 15,000 copies since first launch in 2014.
About What Gives Us Our Names (Rosetta Edition)
He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people. To do this, he learned to watch quietly and look deeply, past the busy surfaces until he could discern the colours beneath, the ones that did not change. One by one he would name them as he wove them into his heart in the deep of night. He touched you once, borrowing pieces of your story in passing. They are here still, in case you wish to look.
About the Author
He has been known to edit, explore, curate, comment, photograph, perform, read, review, study, translate, travel, teach, dine, document, design, dream and adore cats. Generous spirits from many shores have feted his words in fellowships, feasts and festivities. Translators in over twenty languages have puzzled over his words. He once aspired to elusiveness, considering restlessness a virtue, and now accepts that life is brief, fluid and already unknowable. He has always needed glasses.