My works
1. An Attempt to understand the years of plague
Avant-garde. Experimental. Longest novel written by a Singaporean."No form of government is greater than the individual..." These are the words of Kira Teo, a Singaporean woman growing up in a time of uncertainty. Ah, too much uncertainty in this world. Read ahead. It's a new world you are going to experience. Will this book be a success? Will this book break all boundaries? It's up to you, fellow reader.
Being the longest novel by a Singaporean, this novel was written as an insight into the life of a Singaporean author who is constantly struggling with societal expectations and the need to survive in this country that is constantly evolving with the changing international climate. The novel is supposed to be a compilation of various rejections that the author had experienced throughout his life as well as his own experiences that he has endured, intertwined with fiction that is part of the rejections that he experienced throughout his writing career. The writer wanted to express himself deeply because of his traumatic experiences and bring light to things that people normally do not hear about or hear little about, such as university bullying, workplace abuse, and suicidal tendencies.
This novel connects with the readers deeply and personally because the writer wants the readers to understand the pain that he has gone through throughout his life, especially with his experiences with counselling, bullying experiences and various deaths that occurred in his life. Therefore, this novel gives a unique perspective to international audiences on the current individual experience of a Singaporean living in Singapore. The writer has chosen this to be an experimental work because he wanted to have extreme freedom in writing based on his thoughts and emotions, allowing him to break literary boundaries with his personal story. This novel can be considered as a semi-biography but at the same time a work of fiction that fully represents the suffering and conditions that the author has gone through. In this novel, readers will not be protected from the ugly truth and be exposed to actual historical events as well as the author's endeavours in trying to express himself for the world to understand. Inspired by filmmakers like Shuji Terayama and writers like Yukio Mishima, the author is looking at bringing the Singaporean experience from an experimental perspective, allowing the themes of this novel to stand out, making this novel an exception in the literary world.
2. First Under Heaven
First Under Heaven is a novel by M.A Amru. The novel is set in an alternate history timeline in which Germany won the Second World War, and the involvement of a race once lost in space returns years later to conquer Earth. Humanity has reached the stars without our own acknowledgement. Centuries of humanity on the coast of the stars paved for civilization greater than ours. Now, amidst the Second World War, these humans have returned once more to reclaim their glory. But humanity would not surrender — Resistance is established by a group known as the Mensheviks. They are working to protect humanity from destruction, even from within...
This is a revised version of my first novel. I consider this to be the complete version that I wish to tell the audience.
3. A Song For Zenith
To be or not to be. That is all that matters...
An overnight success, a bright future, and then a man from the future appeared. A computer from the past is among the things he wants. He goes by the name John Titor. The only person who can help him... Zenith's Mei Majid. They are, however, being pursued. Not even loved ones can be trusted. So, who can be trusted? Worlds can be undone, and worlds can again fall into iniquity. For an old IBM, for their emotions, and for the sake of humanity. Few would step forward as the righteous in a world of war, where lives are meaningless, and dictators rule. Each has its agenda, each has wicked visions, and each is against the other.
The quest he has undertaken is crucial. She is his strength. If he fails, there will be a nuclear war, but the seeds of that conflict are unravelling before him.
4. Short stories
Blood Heir is available here.
STOP is available here.
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