The Colour of Twilight

ISBN：9789811779268

Writer：Yeng Pway Ngon
Vendor：City Book Room

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Translated by Jeremy Tiang 

Until his death in 2021, Yeng Pway Ngon was widely regarded as one of Singapore's most important Sinophone writers, having won the Singapore Literature Prize three times, among other honours. His final novel, The Colour of Twilight, was published in Chinese (《黄昏的颜色》） in 2019 and will be available to English readers in Jeremy Tiang’s translation, published by City Book Room in January 2026.

The Colour of Twilight is an elegy –– for its protagonist, an ageing widower who wonders if he has wasted his life by devoting it to literature, and also for the traditions and community that have been swept away by the relentless capitalism and modernisation of Singapore.