~ Ng Yi-Sheng
recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize
Full of grief, Singaporean history, printing press lore and sweet memories of love, to read┬аContact With Shadow┬аis to experience lossтАУ and redemption.
The story: a Cambridge research student comes to Singapore to learn about the islandтАЩs pre-Linotype printing history. His wife, an amateur chef, is killed by lightning. Overwhelmed with a sense of loss, he struggles to write his thesis. More often than not, his words are about the woman he loved. A bureaucratic тАЬassistantтАЭ enters the picture, as does a Hollywood producerтАж
Contact With Shadow┬аis an experience, not just a reading experience.
┬аArtist/writer Stephen Black has also written Furikake, Obama Search Words, Bali Wave Ghost, and I Ate Tiong Bahru, a bestseller in Singapore.His visual works have been shown in galleries and museums worldwide. With Eugene Soh, he produced Spoken, a revolutionary virtual gallery.