Author: Tan Twan Eng

Cites

• Richard Holmes (1)
  • IN: The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) Literary Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.”
    FROM: A Meander Through Memory and Forgetting, (2008), Book, UK
• Jean-Dominique Bauby (1)
  • IN: The Gift of Rain (2007) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory
    FROM: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, (1997), Novel, France