Fiction Shortlist
Delayed Rays of a Star
When a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl during 1928 in Berlin, nobody realises how their lives will reflect the upcoming tumultuous decades.
As the story shifts, we also meet a Chinese housemaid attempting to leave the past behind, an obsessive Hollywood auteur and a German soldier involved in a propaganda film.
Whom does history remember? This debut about ambition, art, and the political tides of time introduces a mesmerising literary talent.
Author
Amanda Lee Koe
Amanda Lee Koe was the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the recipient of Columbia University’s Henfield Prize, and the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize. Born in Singapore, she lives in New York. This is her first novel.