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Corridor Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book and Young Adult Series (2009) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) Eighty-eight percent of the world'sCorridor is a collection of short stories all set in present day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa'at writes about HDB dwellers students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success. The characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video