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Gopal Baratham

The Collected Short Stories of Gopal Baratham

This exciting collection brings together thirty-nine of the late Dr. Gopal Baratham’s characteristic and revered pieces. In his usual blunt, strong and controversial style, Baratham’s socio-political critiques are ‘peopled’ by characters from virtually every background and class—with their frustrated hopes, wild illusions and excesses. Paired with a stylistic and evolving narrative voice, as seen in dialogue that fluctuates from poetic to quirky, this writer’s ambivalent medium is also his message. Readers are drawn into the depth of his work, and left with a sympathetic, sensitive understanding of events, people, actions and the complexities of relationships
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Quotes

  • Cassandra Marianohas quoted8 years ago
    “The writer possesses a technically excellent prose style, so smooth that it slips down the reader’s throat like a well-made Singapore Sling.”
    — THE HINDU
    “Most of Baratham’s peers admire his boldness.”
    — ROBERT YEO
    “Baratham’s talent as a writer has been undisputed. So has his moral courage.”
    — THE INDIAN EXPRESS
    “One of your finest writers, Gopal Baratham, has written the best Singaporean novel I have read so far.”
    — F. SIONIL JOSÉ
    “… I feel he is Singapore’s most acclaimed writer.”
    — DR EARL LU
    “[A Candle or the Sun] ... picks up where George Orwell’s 1984 left off.”
    — TIME
    “… a genuine ability to tell a story.”
    — COMMENTARY
    “Singapore’s literary enfant terrible …”
    — THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    “Baratham’s controversial – has always been …”
    — ASIA TIMES
    “The absence of jargon and pretentiousness lends a special charm to the low-key stories that explore the emotions of the locals …”
    — ASIAWEEK
    “Each of the stories, in diverse themes and techniques, is so superbly written that one wishes one would never finish reading it. … I should think that we ought not regard and judge Gopal Baratham’s work within the confines of so-called Singapore literature. Nationality is such a limiting concept.”
    — HAJIME KIJIME

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