TBR (To Be Read): A love letter to the bilingual book
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Bilingual books this writer has read include Chia Joo Ming's Squat For Tradition, Sit For Modernity, and Wang Mun Kiat's Short Tongue.
PHOTOS: NLB, TRENDLIT PUBLISHING
SINGAPORE – My love affair with the bilingual book began with a volume of poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, which I bought as a teenager from Carousell.
“Puedo escribir los versos mas tristes esta noche,” reads one of the Nobel Prize laureate’s most famous opening lines. In the American poet W.S. Merwin’s translation, the line reads: “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.”