Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Taxi Tales
Taxi Tales on a Crooked Bridge by Charlene Rajendran (RM 28.00) "So what are you?" he asks, as the drive to somewhere begins.
The short answer: someone trying to figure out what the question means, in taxi.
Charlene Rajendran is one of the many Malaysians who lives in Singapore, and she choose not to own a car. This book chronicles her conversations with some of the 'driving philosophers' she has met on the hundreds of taxi rides she has taken. Ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion and more are discoursed in short trips across the island state. Seemingly transient and anonymous, but never lonely, the space of a taxi might be the ideal place for both passenger and driver to ponder the world that is literally passing by.
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