{"product_id":"story-by-erasmus-yang-9781956907032","title":"Story by Erasmus Yang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Sometimes our past is the only truth-teller, specially when the real-life persons are not always factual to us, or when the personal memories likewise are not so certain over the years.\" Such is the wisdom of kind-hearted Erasmus T. Yang, frustrated journalist wannabe and proprietor of a mama shop in the fictional Southeast Asia of Tandomon, who finds himself inadvertently embroiled in the Sino-Soviet border clashes of the late 1960s. Told by journalist and award-winning novelist, Scott Shibuya Brown, the novel takes a comic look at one ambitious man's efforts to promote a fraudulent war memorial, thereby almost precipitating international conflict through Yang's enthusiastic news reporting. Narrated in a charming first-person narrative of Singlish and Manglish (Singaporean and Malaysian English), as well as invented colloquial English, the tale is both an entertainment and a warning, in the tradition of early Naipaul, Graham Greene, and Joseph Heller. ―Julian Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown, Scott Shibuya:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Scott Shibuya Brown's novels include FAR AFIELD and THE TRADERS, which was a finalist for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. He is a musician and a former staff journalist for Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He divides his time between California and Asia.","brand":"Jackleg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324797223186,"sku":"9781956907032","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b956ab9-d5f7-4d11-a0d0-e437b9d35713.jpg?v=1748702145","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/story-by-erasmus-yang-9781956907032","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}