In the Land of Pain Condition:Good with its protocols

with its protocols

It recounts Alba’s personal journey and reveals her tips for making healthy living fun

and of some who were divine

their eccentric and remote aunt

this authorised biography brings out Philip Yeo the private man behind the public figure and uncovers the behind-the-scene stories of some of Singapore’s biggest post-independence military

In the Land of Pain Condition:Good with its protocolsAs Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudets La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays ate at the top literary table during his lifetime (18401897). Henry James described him as the happiest novelist and the most charming story teller of his day. Yet if Daudet dined in the highest company, he was also a member of a less enviable nineteenth century French that of literary syphilitics. In the Land of