Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other StoriesRecommended by the National Library Board, Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information A woman learns of a friend’s illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza, comes another beautiful book about characters in crisis, with two stories crossing intriguingly into creative autobiography. |
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| Title | Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories |
| Author | Cyril Wong |
| Publisher | Epigram Books, 2014 |
| ISBN | 9814615099, 9789814615099 |
| Length | 180 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / General Literary Collections / Asian / General |
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