Sing Lit Starter Bundle
- Description
- About Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five
- About Let’s Give It Up for Gimme Lao!
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Part of the Trust × Epigram Recharge campaign, this special bundle celebrates stories of courage, ambition and resilience from Singapore and the region!
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Your starter pack to Singapore literature. Discover local voices through a witty novel and a vibrant collection of contemporary short stories capturing the humour, contradictions and everyday lives shaping Singapore today.
Titles in this Bundle:
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five
- Let’s Give It Up for Gimme Lao!
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Trust Cardholders: Your 50% discount is here! Just apply your exclusive code at checkout to save on this bundle. Don’t forget to explore all our specially curated bundles here!
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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2019 and 2020, selected by guest editor Balli Kaur Jaswal from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections.
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“I don’t aspire to be nice. I do what is necessary to get what I want.”
Born on the night of the nation’s independence, Gimme Lao is cheated of the honour of being Singapore’s firstborn son by a vindictive nurse. This forms the first of three things Gimme never knows about himself, the second being the circumstances surrounding his parents’ marriage, and the third being the profound (but often unintentional) impact he has on other people’s lives.
Talented, determined and focused, young Gimme is confident he can sail the seven seas, but he does not anticipate his vessel would have to carry his mother’s ambition, his wife’s guilt and his son’s secret. Tracing social, economic and political issues over the past 50 years, this humorous novel uses Gimme as a hapless centre to expose all of Singapore’s ambitions, dirty linen and secret moments of tender humanity.
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Description
- Description
- About Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five
- About Let’s Give It Up for Gimme Lao!
-
Part of the Trust × Epigram Recharge campaign, this special bundle celebrates stories of courage, ambition and resilience from Singapore and the region!
—
Your starter pack to Singapore literature. Discover local voices through a witty novel and a vibrant collection of contemporary short stories capturing the humour, contradictions and everyday lives shaping Singapore today.
Titles in this Bundle:
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five
- Let’s Give It Up for Gimme Lao!
—
Trust Cardholders: Your 50% discount is here! Just apply your exclusive code at checkout to save on this bundle. Don’t forget to explore all our specially curated bundles here!
-
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2019 and 2020, selected by guest editor Balli Kaur Jaswal from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections.
-
“I don’t aspire to be nice. I do what is necessary to get what I want.”
Born on the night of the nation’s independence, Gimme Lao is cheated of the honour of being Singapore’s firstborn son by a vindictive nurse. This forms the first of three things Gimme never knows about himself, the second being the circumstances surrounding his parents’ marriage, and the third being the profound (but often unintentional) impact he has on other people’s lives.
Talented, determined and focused, young Gimme is confident he can sail the seven seas, but he does not anticipate his vessel would have to carry his mother’s ambition, his wife’s guilt and his son’s secret. Tracing social, economic and political issues over the past 50 years, this humorous novel uses Gimme as a hapless centre to expose all of Singapore’s ambitions, dirty linen and secret moments of tender humanity.
