Corridor: 12 Short Stories
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CorridorĀ is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Saāat writes about HDB dwellers ā students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success.
The characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother. A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out. A girl encounters a transvestite on an MRT train ride who tells her that she looks like a famous singer. And a man enters a discotheque after a bitter divorce and re-learns the terror of falling in love all over again.
Rich in authentic detail, with a sensitive ear for the vernacular,Ā CorridorĀ paints an elegiac, revealing portrait of contemporary Singaporeans who exist along the cityās corridors ā haunted by lost loves, irrevocable childhoods and a deep longing to be free.
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Alfian SaāatĀ is a Resident Playwright with W!LD RICE. His published works include three collections of poetry, One Fierce Hour, A History of Amnesia and Invisible Manuscript, a collection of short stories, Corridor, a collection of flash fiction, Malay Sketches, and two collections of plays ā Collected Plays One and Collected Plays Two, and the published play Cooling-Off Day.
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- Description
- About the Author
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CorridorĀ is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Saāat writes about HDB dwellers ā students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success.
The characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother. A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out. A girl encounters a transvestite on an MRT train ride who tells her that she looks like a famous singer. And a man enters a discotheque after a bitter divorce and re-learns the terror of falling in love all over again.
Rich in authentic detail, with a sensitive ear for the vernacular,Ā CorridorĀ paints an elegiac, revealing portrait of contemporary Singaporeans who exist along the cityās corridors ā haunted by lost loves, irrevocable childhoods and a deep longing to be free.
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Alfian SaāatĀ is a Resident Playwright with W!LD RICE. His published works include three collections of poetry, One Fierce Hour, A History of Amnesia and Invisible Manuscript, a collection of short stories, Corridor, a collection of flash fiction, Malay Sketches, and two collections of plays ā Collected Plays One and Collected Plays Two, and the published play Cooling-Off Day.
