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Shantih Shantih Shantih

By Daryl Qilin Yam
Shantih Shantih Shantih by Daryl Qilin Yam digital book - Fable

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--Recipient of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize Readers' Favourite English Book--

Snow falls over Singapore for exactly four minutes and twenty-six seconds, quietly interrupting the lives of a dozen individuals, lonely and adrift: an art student and a former fling, chancing upon one another at Punggol MRT station; two men awake at 4am, watching YouTube videos of hail falling over the island nation; a sugar baby trawling through Google Maps, exploring the homes and neighbourhoods of her former clients...

Witness the near-miraculous ways passers-by can transform the trajectories of one another's lives.

Shantih Shantih Shantih is a heady mix of desire and dauntlessness that revels in its interconnections, pulling close a community that is at once together and apart.

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4.5
“i feel like i need to chart out each story's correlation to one another like that one conspiracy theory guy meme. putting my mild craziness aside, i loveddd this. Shantih³ is a short but charming read that gave me both laughs and food for thought. the 12 stories were only a few pages long, but held much character in the individual in focus' words and sentiments. although lacking conflict continuation due to the stories' shortness (would've loved to see ones like the sugar baby and migrant worker come full circle, though i suppose the withdrawal from such is intentional), each are intertwined by the 4-minute long snowfall. the photograph of 2 donning blue with their backs to the camera. the cruise ship partying it up, or so it seems. in a book whose title chants for peace, we can openly interpret (or so only hope) that those in each short story — no matter how beautifully written — receives exactly that.”

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