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Title: Got Singapore by Richard Lim ISBN: 9-8130565-1-7 Publisher: Angsana Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Summary: Taken from the author's official website
Comment: It was probably a first in the long history of The Straits Times, a personal essay that took up an entire 16-page section of the paper in Singapore.

That essay, published on Singapore National Day in 1989, and which won the in-house Story of the Year award, is a reflection of the changes that accompanied Singapore's independence as a nation, and how these changes, from the 1960s through to the 1980s, shaped one Singaporean in his growing-up years.

Although a personal testimony, it resonated with many other Singaporeans. Published again in this collection of essays and columns, it will certainly help younger readers understand the context in which the country's baby-bommer generation grew up.

The essay, together with the other pieces which were picked from among the author's published writings throughout the 1990s and in the last two years, is really A Singapore Story, hence the very Singaporean title of this book, Got Singapore. It is Singapore literature, even if written on the run.

And you don't have to like Singapore to enjoy this book, as Lynn Pan, author of Sons of the Yellow Emperor, points out in the foreword.