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No Readgrets Book Club: Neverness

No Readgrets Book Club: Neverness

Our next book club event of the year explores the hidden histories of a kampung in Geylang Serai, Singapore.

There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters are too deep. A lot was going on in 1979. Most Malay villages were long gone or in their dying days. Malay rock began its unstoppable rise with the emergence of its first influential rock band, while drugs were just across the street. And on one Friday night that year, during the final months in the life of the once major Malay village of Engku Aman in Geylang Serai, 15-year-old Alia left her house and vanished without a trace. In the aftermath of her disappearance, the protective layers in the lives of three other young people who knew her begin unpeeling as they struggle to make sense of her disappearance and their lives in a period of immense social and cultural change.

No Readgrets discussions are safe spaces to nurture conversations and connections over inspiring books and explorations beyond their pages.

This time, we will be discussing the novel, Neverness, by Fairoz Ahmad.

About the Session

Date: 26 February 2025, Wednesday
Time: 8.00 pm - 9.30 pm
Venue: Wardah Books, 58 Bussorah Street, Singapore 199474

Free but registration is required. Click here to register.

Click here to purchase the book.



About No Readgrets Book Club

No Readgrets discussions are safe spaces to nurture conversations and connections over inspiring books and explorations beyond their pages.

About Ethos Books

Established in 1997, Ethos Books, an imprint of Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd, creates fresh, different and enduring books that reflect the ethos of our changing times. We are an independent Singapore publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Giving voice to emerging and exciting writers from diverse backgrounds, we help foster an environment in which literature and the arts not only survive, but thrive. In short, we nurture the growing literary community in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

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