The Gatekeeper
Nuraliah Norasid
Jan 2017 · Epigram Books Fiction Prize Winners Book 2 · Epigram Books
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384
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About this ebook
<Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title & Best Book Cover Design>
<Winner of the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize>
When young medusa Ria inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and love…until her friendship with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to protect.
About the author
Nuraliah Norasid holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Nanyang Technological University. She works as a research associate at the Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA), where she studies marginalities and the confluence of religious ideas and secular society. Her writing has been published in QLRS, Karyawan Magazine, AMPlified and Perempuan: Muslim Women Speak Out. The Gatekeeper is her first novel.
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