Two Figures in a Car  and Other Stories by Wan Phing Lim - ISBN: 9789814954143
Paperback
Lonely hearts, petty crimes, and moral ambiguity in Malaysia and Singapore.

Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories

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  • Paperback

    136 pages

  • Release Date

    30 November 2021

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Summary

Short stories set in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, depicting the lives of the lonely, desperate, and heartbroken in their morally-subjective worlds.

Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a crime. A young girl steals her grandmother’s jade bracelet. A Malay man collects the blonde hair of a British teenager he is transfixed with, and a young woman feeds human blood to a frangipani tree.

There’s right and wrong in this world. Or is there? This collection of fourteen…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9789814954143
ISBN-10:9814954144
Author:Wan Phing Lim
Publisher:Penguin Random House SEA
Imprint:Penguin Random House SEA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:136
Release Date:30 November 2021
Weight:138g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 10mm
About The Author

Wan Phing Lim

Wan Phing Lim was born to Malaysian parents in 1986 in Butterworth, Penang. Her short stories have appeared in Catapult (USA), Ricepaper Magazine (Canada), Lucent Dreaming (UK), Kyoto Journal (Japan) and anthologies by Monsoon Books (UK), Ethos Books (Singapore), Math Paper Press (Singapore) and Fixi Novo (Malaysia). Her story Snake Bridge Temple was selected for Kitaab’s Best Asian Short Stories 2017 and Buku Fixi’s New Malaysian Writing 2017.

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