After 15 years of humiliation, Timothy is coming out of the closet to murder his insensitive and domineering wife, Marcia.The Man in the Cupboardis a sad and darkly funny tale of isolation in both life and dreams. Winner of the 1998 Singapore Literature Prize Merit Award.

This title is being reissued under the new Marshall Cavendish Classics: Literary Fiction series, which seeks to introduce some of the best works of Singapore literature to a new generation of readers.Some have been evergreen titles over the years, others have been unjustly neglected.

Authors in the series include: Catherine Lim, Claire Tham, Colin Cheong, Michael Chiang, Minfong Ho, Ovidia Yu and Philip Jeyaretnam