The Last Immigrant
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Longlisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize
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Read on Kindle: Amazon or Google PlayĀ Ā Listen to the audiobookBy the author of Playing Madame Mao, hailed by Time magazine as "one of the best novels ever written about Singapore".
Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing.
In Lau Siew Meiās new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants.
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Lau Siew Mei was born and raised in Singapore. She is the author of two Playing Madame Mao and The Dispeller of Worries, and a childrenās illustrated middle grade book, Yinās Magic Dragon.
Her short stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service and ABC Radio National, and published in Australia, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. She has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premierās Literary Awards and Best Emerging Queensland Author in the QLD Premierās Literary Awards, commended in the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in the Victorian Premierās Literary Awards, awarded Australia Council and Arts Queensland literary grants, a Varuna Residential Writersā Fellowship and an Asialink Literature Residency in Malaysia.
The Last Immigrant is her third novel.
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- Description
- About the Author
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Longlisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize
Look inside the book
Read on Kindle: Amazon or Google PlayĀ Ā Listen to the audiobookBy the author of Playing Madame Mao, hailed by Time magazine as "one of the best novels ever written about Singapore".
Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing.
In Lau Siew Meiās new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants.
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Lau Siew Mei was born and raised in Singapore. She is the author of two Playing Madame Mao and The Dispeller of Worries, and a childrenās illustrated middle grade book, Yinās Magic Dragon.
Her short stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service and ABC Radio National, and published in Australia, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. She has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premierās Literary Awards and Best Emerging Queensland Author in the QLD Premierās Literary Awards, commended in the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in the Victorian Premierās Literary Awards, awarded Australia Council and Arts Queensland literary grants, a Varuna Residential Writersā Fellowship and an Asialink Literature Residency in Malaysia.
The Last Immigrant is her third novel.
