{"product_id":"dream-storeys","title":"Dream Storeys","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"background-color: #6ba292; color: #ffffff; padding: 8px 12px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDream Storeys\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003edocuments the voices of urban visionaries, while taking their ideas into inventive, evocative new territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArchitects featured\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYen Yen Wu • Chang Jiat-Hwee • Nirmal Kishnani • Lai Chee Kien • Michael Leong • Mark Wee • Olivia Tang • Joshua Comaroff • Tan Kok Hiang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"background-color: #6ba292; color: #ffffff; padding: 8px 12px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClara Chow\u003c\/strong\u003e lives and writes in Singapore. A former The Straits Times arts correspondent, she was also My Paper’s ‘Manic Mummy’ columnist from 2007 to 2013. Her short stories have appeared in the Asia Literary Review, CHA: An Asian Literary Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) and The Stockholm Review of Literature. In 2015, she co-founded the literary and art journal WeAreAWebsite.com. Find her online at clarachow.weebly.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49379292676355,"sku":null,"price":67.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/3146\/3427\/files\/Dream-Storeys-1.webp?v=1785999540","url":"https:\/\/grassrootsbookroom.com\/products\/dream-storeys","provider":"草根书室","version":"1.0","type":"link"}