About this ebook
A curious young boy opens a door and is thrust into the Architrave, a fantastical, fractured world upheld by four Columns. Arriving as the Great Gateway War draws to a start, Li-Hsu must fight bravely alongside a host of strange creatures in order to find his way back home.
Gwee Li Sui’s Myth of the Stone, first published in 1993, is an endearing tale of one unlikely hero’s journey through an unfamiliar landscape. Epigram Books presents a 20th Anniversary Edition of Singapore’s first full-length graphic novel in English, with improved art and bonus features including notes from the author and new short stories that further explore the magical world of the Architrave.
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About the author
Gwee Li Sui is a literary critic, poet and graphic artist from Singapore. He wrote Myth of the Stone, Singapore’s first full-length adventure graphic novel, in 1993 and published a volume of humorous verse, Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems?, in 1998. He obtained his doctorate for work on eighteenth-century European literature from Queen Mary, University of London, in 2003 and was a full-time university lecturer until 2009. He has written on a wide range of subjects from literature to religion to philosophy and is also the editor of Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singapore-Malaysian Literature II (2009), Telltale: Eleven Stories (2010) and Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore (2011).
