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When young medusa Ria inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and loveƒuntil her friendship with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to protect.
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Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title & Best Book Cover Design Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2018, Fiction Winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2016
Author Biography
Nuraliah Norasid holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Nanyang Technological University. She works as a research associate at the Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA), where she studies marginalities and the confluence of religious ideas and secular society. Her writing has been published in QLRS, Karyawan Magazine, AMPlified and Perempuan: Muslim Women Speak Out. The Gatekeeper is her first novel.
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- Publisher Epigram Books
- Publication Date 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789811700903
- Publication Country or regionSingapore
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 24.90 USD
- Pages312
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language AuthorsEnglish
- Dimensions225x52 mm
