This Side of Heaven by Cyril Wong

A comedian, a nun, a reality TV star and countless others meet in a garden. This is not the start of a joke, but the beginnings of a parable. These denizens might be running out of time, while there is all the time in their Kafkaesque world, and an orchestra is playing a song nobody else may hear.

Cyril Wong is a two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council's Young Artist Award for Literature. His writings have been translated into Turkish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Japanese.