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Ten Sticks and One Rice
Ong Yong Hwee & Koh Hong Teng
Singapore: Epigram Books, 2012
ISBN: 9789810731083

Illegal bookie. Secret society member. Street hawker. Neo Hock Seng is all of these, and more. As Singapore transforms from a kampong town to a cosmopolitan city, Neo struggles to make sense of life and eke out a living, even as he finds his old ways and values increasingly challenged.

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