The richness of these stories, and the beauty of their telling, make them welcome and ground-breaking additions to the expanding Singaporean prose canon. In the two volumes at hand, novelists Kirstin Chen and Suchen Christine Lim deploy the genres of the historical novel and short story respectively to explore narratives and identities that have largely been neglected by the city-state’s male-dominated literary scene.
288 pgs.Īlthough women writers from Singapore have received much recent coverage at home and abroad-with 2018 touted by one journalist as a “bumper year” for local female authors-it is regrettable that little critical interest has been devoted to either their highly refreshing experiments in craft, or the candour with which they have brought latent social concerns to light. ❀ Suchen Christine Lim, The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong: Stories of the Unsung, Unsaid and Uncelebrated in Singapore, Burrough Court: Monsoon Books, 2017. ❀ Kirstin Chen, Bury What We Cannot Take, Little A, 2018. Book Reviews / October 2018 (Issue 41: Writing Singapore)
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