A review of Stella Kon's book '4 Pax To Emptiness', a strange and affecting story about four Singaporeans who are beseeched by a goddess to travel to China and perform an act of remembrance.
This is a strange and yet oddly affecting story by playwright Stella Kon that seems to defy easy classification. Four Singaporeans from a meditation club, stricken by increasingly debilitating daydreams, are beseeched by a goddess to travel to China , where they attempt to perform an act of remembrance that will mend a rift in the world.
Marketed as urban fantasy by publisher Penguin Random House SEA, half of it in fact takes place in rural China – a village called Nanchiao, where the four are stuck after the road is blocked by a landslide. The “fantasy” half of the equation also does not sit quite right. For one thing, the novel is a mere 172 pages and there are no warring kingdoms or obscure magi
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