Singaporean writers Cyril Wong and Desmond Kon look at near-death experiences and the afterlife

SINGAPORE – What happens after you die? Singapore Literature Prize-winning writers Cyril Wong and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde have some ideas.

In his latest novel, This Side Of Heaven, Wong, 42, imagines the afterlife as a purgatorial garden in which the dead wander, fulfilling forbidden desires and haunted by what they left behind on earth.

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SINGAPORE – What happens after you die? Singapore Literature Prize-winning writers Cyril Wong and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde have some ideas.

In his latest novel, This Side Of Heaven, Wong, 42, imagines the afterlife as a purgatorial garden in which the dead wander, fulfilling forbidden desires and haunted by what they left behind on earth.

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Read More – Source

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