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Dakota 达哥打


Publisher: City Book Room
S$25.00
  • Dakota 达哥打 by Wong Koi Tet, winner of the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize (Chinese Creative Non-fiction), meets readers in an English translation by Shanna Tan.

    本地获奖作家黄凯德曾于 2018 年自费出版《达哥打》,2020年售罄顿成绝版,同年获颁 2020 年新加坡文学奖⾮虚构写作)。今年 4 ⽉,城市书房同步出版《达哥打》英译本《Dakota》和新版《达哥打》,增添了 6 篇之前未收录的作品。

    这是一本写给童年的乡愁之书,收录了 25 篇相关的散文和插画,即是个人情感的切面,也是集体记忆的展现,更是新加坡历史与土地变迁的见证。作者于 70 年代出生并且成长于达哥打,当这个国民⽼社区面临拆除与重建之际,希望借文字记录过往生活的点滴,以一种忧郁并且纯真的目光,细腻的回望关于地方和时间的故事。

    Dakota is a sharp and whimsical work of literary creative non-fiction about coming-of-age in the 1970-80s in an iconic Singapore neighbourhood lost to urban renewal named Dakota Crescent. The deeply personal vignettes stitch together a mosaic of Singapore’s urban history. Humorous with a touch of melancholy, Wong Koi Tet’s evocative writing makes us reflect on place as an anchor of history, heritage and home.

    “The Longkau’s Name” originally appeared in The Common.

    “My Take on Pantheism”, “Twenty-One Grams” and “The Neighborhood Zoo” originally appeared in The Southern Review (Autumn 2022)

    “An Instant,” “Because of Cod Liver Oil,” and “Zipping Up” originally appeared in The Georgia Review (Winter 2023)

ISBN: 9789811892356 (Chinese), 9789811892363 (English)
Cover Type: Paperback
Page Count: 264
Year Published: 2024
Language: Chinese, English
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