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    Lovelier, Lonelier
    Lovelier, Lonelier
    Lovelier, Lonelier
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    Lovelier, Lonelier

    By Daryl Qilin Yam

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    It wasn't love, really. They were just trying to make something out of their lives.

    Kyoto, 1996, during the passing of Comet Hyakutake: A runaway from Singapore discovers a woman crying in front of a train station at 5.46am. A Straits Times journalist later arrives with her gallerist friend from Madrid, dreading the reenactment of her mother's performance art. The lives of these four friends—Isaac, Tori, Jing and Mateo—become entangled as a result of one madcap weekend, when fireworks are inexplicably shot over the Kamo River and people become swept to alternate worlds via public transport.

    Daryl Qilin Yam's genre-defying second novel ranges across countries and decades, charting the tributaries of pain we thread with our friends and the arcs of the many stories we tell in order to live.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpigram Books
    Release dateJan 25, 2022
    ISBN9789814901376
    Lovelier, Lonelier
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    Daryl Qilin Yam

    Daryl Qilin Yam (b. 1991) is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the author of the novella Shantih Shantih Shantih (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and the novel Lovelier, Lonelier (2021), which was longlisted for the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award. He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station. His writing has appeared in periodicals and publications such as the Berlin Quarterly, Mekong Review, Sewanee Review, The Straits Times and The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singapore Short Stories anthology series. His first novel, Kappa Quartet (2016), was selected by The Business Times as one of the best novels of the year, and described by QLRS as "[breaking] new ground in Singaporean writing... a shimmering and poignant novel, an immensely sympathetic and humane exploration of our existential condition."

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