Summary
4 Pax to Emptiness is an urban fantasy set in Singapore and China, in 1997.
Four people from the tiny, wealthy, hypermodern nation of Singapore visit a remote village in the heart of China. It’s almost forty years since the end of a great famine, hardly known to the world outside China, but psychic echoes of that agony still reverberate through the cosmos. It is the Singaporeans’ task to try to heal that spiritual trauma. When the dead have been universally recognised and mourned for,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815058949 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9815058940 |
| Author: | Stella Kon |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 178 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 136mm x 215mm |
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Stella Kon
Stella Kon’s best-known work is the monodrama Emily of Emerald Hill, which appeared in 1982 and has since been performed almost a thousand times in Singapore, Malaysia, and elsewhere. She has also written poems, novels, and other plays, and librettos for several musicals with composer Desmond Moey.
In 2006, she helped to found the arts charity Musical Theatre Ltd and was its chairperson for 14 years. Stella loves to travel to visit her two sons and their families: Mark, Colette, and children in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and Luke, Gini, and children in Sydney, Australia. She meditates regularly with the Singapore branch of the World Community for Christian Meditation.
Plays by Stella Kon:
- The Bridge
- Trial
- Emily of Emerald Hill
- Dragon’s Teeth Gate
Collections:
- 9 Classroom Plays
- 3 Stellar Plays
Novels:
- The Scholar and the Dragon
- Eston
Musicals:
- Lost in Transit
- Peter and Pierre
- Merlion
- Emily the Musical
- Lim Boon Keng the Musical
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