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Singapore's heartbeats through poignant HDB dweller tales.

"Corridor" takes you through the vivid corridors of Singapore, painting an intimate portrait of its people. If you're keen on stories that resonate with emotional depth and a keen eye for the struggles against modernity, Alfian Sa'at's unvarnished narratives will captivate you. It's like holding a mirror to the delicate balance between progress and the personal, where every page offers a slice of life that's both uniquely Singaporean and universally human.

  • Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction; Commendation (1998)
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ISBN: 9789810779931
Authors: Alfian Sa'at
Publisher: Ethos Books
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.6
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Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa'at writes about HDB dwellers — 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, Corridor paints an elegiac, revealing portrait of contemporary Singaporeans who exist along the city's corridors — haunted by lost loves, irrevocable childhoods, and a deep longing to be free. Corridor won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998.
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Singapore's heartbeats through poignant HDB dweller tales.

"Corridor" takes you through the vivid corridors of Singapore, painting an intimate portrait of its people. If you're keen on stories that resonate with emotional depth and a keen eye for the struggles against modernity, Alfian Sa'at's unvarnished narratives will captivate you. It's like holding a mirror to the delicate balance between progress and the personal, where every page offers a slice of life that's both uniquely Singaporean and universally human.

  • Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction; Commendation (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.