The Betel Nut Tree Mystery Author_Alfian Sa’at His translation of Notes of

His translation of Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu Tien-wen garnered a 2000 National Translation Award

colonial politics

and a creativity self-help guide (Game of Thoughts

The poems question what we hold as vital amid ceaseless consumption and our urban existence

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The Betel Nut Tree Mystery Author_Alfian Sa’at His translation of Notes ofDescription About the Author The second novel in Ovidia Yu's delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin. What we came to think of as the betel nut affair began in the middle of a tropical thunderstorm in December 1937 . . . Singapore is agog with the news of King Edward VIII's abdication to marry American heiress Wallis Simpson. Chen Su Lin, now Chief Inspector Le Froy's secretarial assistant in