Love, Or Something Like Love Condition:Good the stakes are higher than

the stakes are higher than ever

The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore

but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit

but what will be the price of his triumph

and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers

Love, Or Something Like Love Condition:Good the stakes are higher thanA woman reminded of her past through the acts of her grandson. A band of swordsmen on a failed mission. The forbidden love of Zheng He, the great Chinese Admiral. A young daughter forming a strange bond with her deceased fathers cat. Presenting ten stories in his fifth collection, O Thiam Chin plumbs the joy and despair, hopes and fears of men and women caught up by their past and confounded by lost loves. Taut, dark and visceral, these stories