Kappa Quartet - Softcover

Daryl Qilin Yam

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ISBN 10: 1912098725 ISBN 13: 9781912098729

Publisher: Epigram Books, 2017

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What does it mean to be in possession of something nobody has seen before? Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he 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.

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Irreal and intricate... teases the perimeters of what a Singaporean novel can be --Amanda Lee Koe, award-winning author of Ministry of Moral Panic

About the Author

Daryl Qilin Yam is a co-editor of the SingPoWriMo anthology series, a director at Sing Lit Station, and a stage play producer at Take Off Productions. He holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, and spent a year in Japan studying at the University of Tokyo. He has been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals. Kappa Quartet is his first novel.

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