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by Shivaji Das (Author), Yolanda Yu (Author)
Stories that showcase a uniquely human connection to hitherto undocumented lives of migrant workers in Asia--some shocking, some redeeming, yet all very real
A domestic worker from the Philippines runs away from her husband who's set out to kill her. A mine-blaster looks at his X-ray scan to realize that all he has earned from his sixteen years of work is a catalogue of chronic diseases. An undocumented factory worker in Malaysia takes refuge in the wild to escape from the police.
A construction worker in India is abducted and sold as a bride to a stranger. Migrant sex workers in Thailand scrimp to stretch their vanishing savings, having lost all their customers due to COVID-19. A cleaner from China struggles to cope with the cultural oddities while working in an Indian restaurant. Domestic workers in Singapore lament the hopelessness of finding love in a foreign land. A landscaper tries to rebuild his life with a reconstructed 'alien' face after he suffers a massive explosion. A project engineer who once hated his native village, now plants trees to preserve its nature.
Author Biography
Shivaji Das is the author of four critically acclaimed travel, art and business books. He was the first prize winner for Time magazine's Sub-Continental Drift Essay contest and shortlisted for Fair Australia
Prize for Short Stories. Shivaji has been actively involved in migrant issues and is the conceptualizer and organizer for the acclaimed Migrant Worker and Refugee Poetry Contests in Singapore, Malaysia and Kenya and is the founder and director of the Global Migrant Festival.
Yolanda Yu is a multi-time winner of the Golden Point Award. Her book Neighbor's Luck, a collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Award 2020. Yolanda's work has been
featured on LianHe ZaoBao, Cha Journal, New York Times Travel, Zuopin Magazine, and Guangxi Literature Magazine.
