The Catherine Lim Collection by Catherine Lim
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Overview: Catherine Lim Poh Imm is a Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture. This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim’s prowess as a storyteller chronicling a society in transit, where multi-ethnic characters struggle with their identities as the past and the present intersect, mingle and clash.
Genre: Fiction, General
The Serpent’s Tooth
Catherine Lim’s first novel, in which presents the conflicts experienced in a family, against a backdrop of Asian superstitions, myths and legends. The theme is the fearful dereliction that is visited upon the younger generation when the primary Confucianist injunction—’Honour thy father and thy mother through filial piety’—is ignored. The title is taken from Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’, where the old king, after being abandoned by his daughters, curses them and cries out, ‘Sharper than a serpent’s tooth/ It is to have a thankless child!’
They do Return…but Gently lead them Back
These 15 short stories are ghost stories, not the usual supernatural stories of violent hauntings and visitations, but quiet, even mundane tales that examine how people cope with their traditional beliefs about death. The dead seem to have been suddenly transformed into powerful beings who can reach beyond the grave to affect their lives. The result is a conflict of emotions—the fearful realization that those who have died do return, the urgent need to placate them if they are angry and to help them on their journey home if they are lost and still wandering restlessly on the face of the earth. But the ultimately reassuring emotion must be this: that the ties of love and caring will never be severed by death.
O Singapore!: Stories in Celebration
From the playfully satirical pen of Catherine Lim comes the wild, weird and wacky world of O Singapore! This is 90s Singapore where the campaigns and the directives of the unremittingly competent leadership come face to face with the undeniably human fads, foibles and follies of the Singaporean people.
The Woman’s Book of Superlatives
A young girl squirms and hunches, hoping her father will stop gazing at her growing breasts. A wife tightens her arms around her abdomen to protect her unborn baby from the blows of her drunken husband. Is suffering the fate of women? Is their lot simply to endure with equanimity?
Catherine Lim beguiles the reader with a startling contrast: the deification of women in ancient myths, against the degradation of women at the hands of their men. Time and again, an unwonted bond of sisterhood appears, and is affirmed in a final fateful collision.
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