Malaysian poet, novelist and critic Shirley Geok-lin Lim will be at Silverfish (67-1 Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar Baru) 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Saturday, 25th March 2006.She will be reading from her latest novel, Sister Swing, a coming-of age story of three sisters who move from a relatively shelted life Malaysia to the harsher realities the United States.
Please R.S.V.P. by 23rd March 2006 to Vasantha/Phek Chin at Tel: (603) 228 448 37 (Admission is free but they need to know numbers! )
And for sure I'll be there. I last met Lim at a literature conference in KL several years back and was lucky enough to participate in a creative writing workshop she ran with New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Both were warm and encouraging sharers of their craft.
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Is this her first novel? So far, I've known her for her poetry (but am not a poetry fan). I've met her before too at the Canticle concert in Bangsar church. ;D
she's written one calledJoss and Gold ... if you click on the link there's a pretty complete bibliography
i like her poetry very much but i know that most kids find her monsoon history pretty hard going ... really who choses the poems for the syllabus?
I think she has published a book of short stories. Need to go back and check my library.
quicker to click the link above chet ...
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..and all editorial review comments were from Asians. Whta this means, I don't know.
Found it. It's called Another Country, a collection of 15 stories, published by Times Books International in 1982. It's probably no longer in print, but should still be in her bibliography?
Sorry, mistook Shirley for another poet I met. ;D -embarassed-
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