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Best New Singaporean Short Stories
Volume Five
2023
First Published
3.89
Average Rating
280
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Part of Series

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. Contents: Preface | Balli Kaur Jaswal Introduction | Jason Erik Lundberg Harihara | Cyril Wong Fish | Ashish Xiangyi Kumar The Prayer Mat | Wisha Jamal The Visit | Jon Gresham Fling | Jayashree Panicker To Ashes | Wayne Rée The Panasonic | Prasanthi Ram The Prisoner | Yu-Mei Balasinghamchow Who’s Your Daddy? / Siapa Bapak Kau? | Suffian Hakim A Minor Kalahari | Diana Rahim Xingzhou | Ng Yi-Sheng Sacred Scalp | Anittha Thanabalan Buddha was an Aries | Adeline Chia A Trip to the Beach | Barrie Sherwood The Kapre | Patricia Karunungan The Best of Times | Samantha Toh The Unsullied Tongue of Saint Anthony | Arin Alycia Fong

Avg Rating
3.89
Number of Ratings
18
5 STARS
39%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
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Author

Balli Kaur Jaswal
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Author · 6 books
Balli Kaur Jaswal's latest novel is The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters (Harper Collins/William Morrow). Her previous novels include Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award, and Sugarbread, a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the Singapore Literature Prize. Her third novel Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was translated into 15 languages and chosen by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club.
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