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Dream Storeys
1. Aufl.
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12,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Ethos Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 30.11.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9789811408939 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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Beschreibungen
<I>What if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives?</I><br/><br/><br/>A shopping mall self-destructs, and a single mother vanishes. A tree house for orphans and old folks is torn apart by an act of mercy. The Singapore Flyer is reinvented as a political prison. In this collection of nine tales, Clara Chow examines an alternative Singaporean landscape—one that exists only on paper—and the people we might be in it. A former newspaper correspondent, she interviews nine architects about chimeric structures and sets short stories in them. A hybrid of journalism and fiction, <I>Dream Storeys</I> documents the voices of urban visionaries, while taking their ideas into inventive, evocative new territories.<br/><br/>“An inventive combination of non-fiction and fiction, with expertly crafted and unpredictable short stories. The exquisite and precise details in Clara Chow’s stories bring to life the fantastical structures dreamt of by her interviewees.”<br/>-Dave Chua, author of Gone Case<br/><br/>“By mirroring real-life architectural dreams with a fictional narrative, Clara Chow has produced an intriguing and original literary structure. Her somewhat dystopian world is a discomforting vision of a future where people struggle to adapt to societies very different from today, yet are still guided by a deep sense of their own humanity and their connection to each other.”<br/>-Meira Chand, author of A Different Sky
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