Literary Arts

Kappa Quartet – Reading

Organised by: BooksActually
  • Date:
    13 Jan 2017
  • Time:
    7:00pm
  • Duration:
    1h
  • Venue:
    BooksActually, No. 9 Yong Siak Street, Tiong Bahru, Singapore 168645
    BooksActually, No. 9 Yong Siak Street, Tiong Bahru, Singapore 168645BooksActually, No. 9 Yong Siak Street, Tiong Bahru, Singapore 168645
  • Admission:
    -

Synopsis:

BooksActually
presents
Kappa Quartet
by Daryl Qilin Yam

Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire nothing more than the souls of other humans.

Set between Singapore and Japan, Kappa Quartet is split into eight discrete sections, tracing the rippling effects of this chance encounter across a host of other characters, connected and bound to one another in ways both strange and serendipitous. Together they ask one another: what does it mean to be in possession of something nobody has seen before?

Praise for Kappa Quartet
"Yam breaks new ground in Singaporean writing with his exploration of what it means to live in this weary world, to be human, to possess (or not possess) a soul ... Kappa Quartet is a shimmering and poignant novel, an immensely sympathetic and humane exploration of our existential condition."
— Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

"Atmospheric, surreal and masterfully told through an off-kilter cast of characters lost and lonely, this exciting new read comes from the longlist of the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize."
— The Straits Times

"Set in present-day Singapore and Japan, Yam's terrific debut novel tells a strange and shivery tale of ordinary people living side by side with kappas... Yam is one to watch."
— The Business Times

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Daryl Qilin Yam (b. 1991) is a Singaporean writer of prose and poetry, born and based in Singapore. Yam is also a co-editor of the SingPoWriMo anthology series by Math Paper Press, an arts organiser at Sing Lit Station, and a stageplay producer at the non-profit collective Take Off Productions. His first novel, Kappa Quartet (Epigram Books, 2016), was longlisted for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize.

His website is darylqilinyam.com. His social media handle is @yammonation.

Kappa Quartet – Reading


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