111 Places in Singapore That You Shouldn't Miss

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by Christoph Hein, Sabine Hein

Singapore - the world's laboratory for a future society enthralls even the most seasoned of traveler with its diversity of cultures and cuisines. Here Chinese and Indians, Malays and delegates from all over the world live together in peace. The southeast Asian city-state is forever redefining itself, and only reveals its century-old secrets by degrees. Visitors marvel at its unique mixture of tradition and modernity. There are secrets and stories lurking under the shiny modern surface of the metropolis, just waiting to be discovered. This is the book that will lead you to these incredible places.

240 pages, Paperback

Published January 8, 2019

About the author

Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.

Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After jobbing as an assembler, bookseller and assistant director, he studied philosophy. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer, becoming known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund (The Distant Lover).

Reviews

[Kalei · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly architectural places, not so much food or things to do