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In this novella by Daryl Qilin Yam, a dozen lonely individuals in Singapore witness a freakish instance of snowfall, lasting for exactly four minutes and twenty-six seconds. Daryl’s writing has got me hooked in such a magical realism and emotional connection to the story and characters. In these 12 different stories, the order of the chapter doesn't matter, whatever story a reader starts of first, the story has a sense of connection to one another. In each story of different characters, it feels...
↠ 2.5
First of all, I’d like to thank BooksActually for sending this ARC in exchange for an honest review. Going into this book, I had no idea about the writing style or the format of the book, except for the synopsis which is Singapore experienced snow and there were some witnesses to the event. I was also intrigued when the synopsis mentions about the life of the lonely Singaporeans, hence I accepted the review request.It’s been a while since I read books with multiple POV. For example, this book st...
A short novella by a local writer on a dozen different individuals in Singapore, whose stories are interconnected by their encounter of snow at the wee hours of the day and are but one/two degrees of separation away. For each character that is introduced, a chapter is told from his/her POV - which I enjoyed. There was repeated mentions of a picture which showed two persons donning blue parkas walking down a path through snowy weather. I assume the picture may have been taken by the author. A nic...
Taking its title from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (there is a humorous bit where Arman, a poet and foreign worker, wonders why Eliot spells Shanti as “Shantih”), Shantih Shantih Shantih is Daryl Yam’s third publication and first novella.In Shantih Shantih Shantih, Daryl Yam imagines a Singapore that experiences, without explanation, a bout of snow. If the snow, a phenomenon tying together twelve disparate human experiences, is described by the writer figure (whom I imagine is a stand-in for Dar...
Shantih Shantih Shantih is a novella by Daryl Qilin Yam that gives us twelve different snapshots of an uncanny incidence of snowfall in Singapore.Like piecing together a piece of puzzle, these twelve beguiling, almost-dreamy fragments can be read in any order you deem fit, and will still make sense as a series of accounts.What I am fascinated by is how these fragments portray a certain sense of unspoken melancholy and loneliness in the city, making it feel like you’re reading something exclusive...
4.5⭐"You will see that you have been drifting your whole life, only to find yourself caught in the orbit of something immense and wonderful, and the gravity of it makes sense, feels solid, is right."Daryl Yam's collection of 12 vignettes are like a box of truffles. Each one delicious and distinct but also with the one transversing ingredient - chocolate. In this case, it is the absolutely incongruous occurence of snow in Singapore for precisely 4 minutes and 26 seconds at 4.45am. Each bite of a
Oh this was magic and madness I really liked it
🚨 Book Review Shantih Shantih Shantih - Daryl Qilin Yam ❄️ (4/5 ⭐️)SUMMARY: ✍🏼 A dozen individuals from all walks of life witness a freakish instance of snowfall in Singapore, lasting four minutes and twenty-six seconds. The novella, split into twelve sections, gives us a peek into the lives of people from very different backgrounds, at one specific moment in time. From a reporter to a taxi driver, we are privy to their daily thoughts and occurrences, but also shown how interconnected we all are...
Beautifully woven
“If there is any good I can do in the world, I want to be able to look at the lives of these other people and present it to those who are curious, just curious, to see the many things and places that pertain to keep them, and house them, and provide shelter for them.”In just four minutes and twenty-six seconds of bizarre snowfall in Singapore, ordinary everyday moments in the lives of 12 individuals are transformed into extraordinary encounters connecting them to one another.Reading these vignet...
i love a novella around a single concept, and finding the trails from one story to a next/one character to the next was beautiful, as was the prose. you get a strong sense of singapore in the text–notably a quiet, nighttime version of the place, which is rare. incredibly soothing to read, even through the melancholia of some of the short stories.maybe i wanted a little more from the snow in this novella? seems to me that putting snow in the context of singapore has greater ecological/symbolic co...
3.5*
