Lydia Kwa

• 1994
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lydia Kwa's voice is drenched in memory. Speaking at several junctures, both Singapore-born and Vancouver-habituated, her poetry carries the pain and historic wealth of her passage. It murmurs stories, laconic, profound, stories that tell whole shape...

• Mar-2002
• / Horror
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Shares the stories of four Chinese women from disparate backgrounds, including psychologist Wu Lan, who finds herself unable to shake the remnants of her traditional Singapore upbringing and who is tormented by her father's apparent suicide. A first ...

• Sep-2010
• / Literary
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Set in contemporary Toronto and Singapore, Pulse is the story of Natalie, a native Singaporean transplanted to Toronto’s Chinatown. When she hears the devastating news that Selim, the son of her old best friend (and former lover), has died in myste...

• Oct-2017
• / Historical
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In 7th-century China, life is rife with magic, fox spirits, and demons. Xie, the demon lover of the empress Wu Zhao, believes he must possess the oracle bone, which will bestow immortal powers on him. In his way is Qilan, an eccentric Daoist nun, wh...

• Oct-2023
• / Science Fiction
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In 2219 CE Luoyang, a city patched together after the Great Catastrophe, the half-human, half-fox spirit Yinhe moves through her most recent incarnation. The city is watched over by No. 1, an artificial intelligence housed in a giant brain created by...

• Sep-2024
• / General Fiction
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from time to new by Lydia Kwa is a collection of poems that weaves themes of alienation and reconciliation between the past and the present. It is work that explores themes of grieving and recovery from illness, touching on the unseen aspects of surv...