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008			051206s1991 000 0 eng d
020			_a9812042911
040			_erda
050			_a PR 6052.A594 _b.Sa99 1991
100			_aBaratham, Gopal, 1935- _949707
245		0	_aSayang / _cGopal Baratham.
264			_aSingapore : _bTimes Book International, _c[1991].
300			_a216 pages _c 20 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aThough I rarely had occasion to use it, I know the word and its implications well. It was truly a Southeast Asian word, soft as its people and well-understood from Marang to Manila, Surabaya to Sulawesi, Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu. It describes a love bound to sadness, a tenderness trembling on the edge or tears, a passion from which pity could not be detached... I did not realise how fully I would understand saying. Had I known, I would have given it more thought. Joe Samy suspects that his wife, Ri is pulling the blinds on him. So he engages the rough but affable private eye, Sigmund Lee, to track her movements. As he is led on a roundable ride, Joe succumbs to temptation himself, first with a transsexual, then with his son's girlfriend. Events begin to take a twist for the macabre as Ri falls mysteriously ill and his son, Kris, submits his body to a drug peddler while Joe himself tangles with a defrocked priest. As his family falls apart, Joe Samy, now vulnerable and not so smug, takes a hard lesson from life on the true meaning of 'sayang.'
650			_a Families _2sears
942			_cIRC
999			_c61417 _d61417