Lion City National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2014) needs an ingenious plan to

needs an ingenious plan to keep her café and customers safe

wants only to work hard and become a successful businessman

the competing claims of liberal and professional education

Matthiessen was searching for solace

Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic

Lion City National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2014) needs an ingenious plan toA man learns that all the animals in the zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters to the gods. A prince falls in love with a crocodile. A concubine is lost in time. The island of Singapore disappears. These are the exquisitely strange tales of Lion City, the first collection of short fiction by award winning poet and playwright Ng Yi Sheng. Infused with myth, magical realism, and contemporary sci fi, each of these tales invites the