If We Dream Too Long (New Edition)

A novelist, poet, and playwright, Goh Poh Seng (1936–2010) was born in Kuala Lumpur. He received his medical degree from Dublin and practised medicine in Singapore before migrating to Canada in 1986. If We Dream Too Long was his first novel, winning the National Development Council of Singapore Award for Fiction in 1976. He published three other novels, five books of poetry, and a fictionalized memoir also published by NUS Press, Tall Tales and Misadventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman.