Author: Catherine Lim

I have noticed, increasingly, that people after the age of 65 or thereabouts begin to experience the fear of death in a very palpable way. While in...

I had fallen head over heels in love with a foreign language that others in my community were indifferent to, had grudgingly learnt or positively h...

Catherine Lim's free-wheeling imagination cheerfully dispenses with all constraints to tell stories of that other world. Written with an exaggerate...

Yin Ling--poor, beautiful, an outstanding student and a poet--is to marry Vincent Chee, a rich PhD student from a very traditional, upper-class fam...

The living and the dead there is something that binds them. For the living are endlessly fascinated by tales of the dead, whether they are about a...

The 12 stories in this collection electrify by their dazzling diversity of subject, their relentless observation and comment and their adroit use o...

At the age of four, Han, a young woman born into dire poverty in 1950s Singapore, is sold as a slave to the wealthy house of Wu. Forming a close bo...

This collection of eight short stories combines Catherine Lims sharp powers of observation with her insightful comments on the conflicts, both inte...

There is a wonderful ancient Western tradition that allows a woman to propose to a man but only on 29 February. Only once every four years, in a l...