Wong Meng Voon,Howard Goldblatt
The stories in ,Under the Bed, Confusion, sketch a vast array of characters: from an aging coffee shop assistant struggling on her first day at work to a multimillionaire obsessed with crossing the fourth hurdle; from a dissident doctor exiled on the island of Pulau Tekong to a pampered, carefree mutt. Using elements of the fantastical and the satirical, this collection of mini-fiction probes Singaporeâ€™s underbelly with sarcastic wit, revealing darkly humorous and philosophical insights into the many facets of her peopleâ€™s collective psyche.,Wong Meng Voon, is a writer, editor and academic who has written eleven books of short stories and mini-fiction in Chinese. For his contribution to Singaporean literature and the Chinese mini-fiction form, he was awarded Singaporeâ€™s Cultural Medallion in 1981, the S.E.A. Write Award and Chinaâ€™s Lifelong Achievement for World Chinese Mini-stories Award. He has also been awarded the Translation Prize by the National Book Development Council of Singapore. ,Howard Goldblatt, is the translator of Nobel Prize Winner Mo Yan's work and more than thirty novels and short story collections by writers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. His translations of Jiang Rongâ€™s ,Wolf Totem,, Su Tongâ€™s ,The Boat to Redemption, and co-translation of Bi Feiyuâ€™s ,Three Sisters, have all won the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Under the Bed, Confusion