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What’s better than a good short story? Yep- an anthology of short stories! The book “Best New Singaporean Short Stories” does live up to its name. Kudos to the Editors, for each story is different, exciting and each carries its own Singaporean flair!•The stories touch upon friendships, family and life in Singapore, past, present and future, and each carries a theme ranging from mental health to socio-cultural issues like ethnicity and identity.Here were my favourites (trust me, it wasn’t easy to...
I was glad to discover this collection of short stories, to get a sense of "Singaporean" literature, and will be reading other volumes. I especially liked "Edison and Curie" and "SIN".
Putting aside the ghastly cover and bizarre advertisement-as-introduction, this slimmed-down selection (16 stories, down from the 20+ in previous volumes) benefits the quality of the writing. I appreciated the diversity of the stories’ subjects, styles and their provenance, my fave being Cyril Wong’s “Blindness” and Jennani Durai’s “Regrettable Things”.
