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The Last Immigrant by Lau Siew Mei

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The Last Immigrant

Author
Lau Siew Mei
Narrator
Benjamin Chow
Publisher
Storyside
Publish Date
26 March 2019
Run Time
7 hours 29 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Narrative theme: politics / economics, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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What to expect

Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing. In Lau Siew Mei's new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants. © 2018 by Lau Siew Mei. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.

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Details
Author
Lau Siew Mei
Narrator
Benjamin Chow
Duration
7 hours 29 minutes
Release Date
26 March 2019
ISBN
9789178897469
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Storyside
Genre
Narrative theme: politics / economics, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

Synopsis

Ismael, a transplanted Singaporean, lives on a bucolic suburban Brisbane street. His job is to decide whether asylum-seekers get to stay in the country, a dilemma that never fails to remind him of his own immigrant status. But then his life begins to take on the hue of a nightmare: his neighbour inexplicably commits suicide, his wife dies of cancer, his daughter abandons him for the United States, and his Siamese cat goes missing. In Lau Siew Mei's new novel, an enclosed Australian neighbourhood becomes a microcosm of a world increasingly hostile towards migrants. © 2018 by Lau Siew Mei. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.

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