Set in a welfare home named after the tunjuk langit trees of Choa Chu Kang, the novel follows elderly residents who have been left behind by their families as they face the threat of closure. Habeb's outrageous attempt to save the home brings out the residents' solidarity and the story's sharp criticism of how society treats old age.

Solidarity and ingenuity spark a fight to keep an elderly home alive.

A poetry collection built around gaze and response. It explores identity and memory by moving between the personal and the social.

A poetry collection that looks straight back at the feminine and refuses to flinch.

A Tamil-language work that uses a wooden elephant as a symbol to explore heritage, memory, and ties across generations. Allegory and lyricism are closely intertwined.

It shapes the tension between homeland and elsewhere into an allegory of inner conflict.

A study of the process and aesthetics of Malay creative writing in Singapore. It links the act of writing to the cultural background that shapes it.

A book for rethinking Malay literature from the inside out.

An experimental work of fiction that uses language and form to rebuild the relationship between a person and a place.

It lifts the memory of a vanished neighborhood with a voice that is light on its feet and full of feeling.

Part of a project that compiles “banished books” through a visual bibliography. It is an ambitious nonfiction art book that combines images and text as evidence.

It traces the history of destruction and resistance around books through image and language.