The Emperor’s New Cloth

The Emperor’s New Cloth

Goh Kian Hui

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Editorial:
Goh Kian Hui
Año de edición:
2026
ISBN:
9798237229790
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Mei Lin believes every number has a reason. Until she starts asking who chose the number.A record-breaking COE. Million-dollar mortgages. Rising medical bills. Endless tuition. A delivery rider struggling to stay afloat.Following the numbers through modern Singapore, Mei Lin expects to find greed and people to blame. Instead, she discovers something more troubling: everyone is behaving rationally.Then she realizes that one of the systems deciding who gets heard was built by her.The Emperor’s New Cloth is a darkly comic novel about the hidden price of a perfectly rational world.Everyone sees the emperor is naked. Everyone has a reason to stay silent.

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