// Eating Air / Ng Yi-Sheng

// isbn: 981-08-0280-3

// S$16.00 SGD

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Meet Boy. He’s a teenage motorcycle punk, out to wreak havoc with his gang of friends. Meet Girl. She’s a student in the morning, a copy shop assistant in the afternoon and a newspaper vendor at night.

Theirs is a love story set on the streets of Singapore, a surreal tale of kung fu fantasies, loan sharks, drug deals, sting rays, brotherhood and romance: the frustrated dreams of a young underclass searching for their own freedom in the concrete jungle.

Based on Kelvin Tong and Jasmine Ng’s movie Eating Air (1999), a local indie classic and a two-time winner and three-time nominee of international film awards. Adapted by lauded poet/playwright Ng Yi-Sheng.