THE MISTAKE

by Cyril Wong

A mother and son have to deal with the consequences when she makes an embarrassing mistake at the shopping mall one afternoon.

70 pages, Audiobook

First published January 6, 2021

About the author

Cyril Wong is a two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature. His books include poetry collections Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) and The Lover’s Inventory (2015), novels The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza (2013) and This Side of Heaven (2020), and fiction collection Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me (2014). He completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His works have been featured in the Norton anthology, Language for a New Century, in Chinese Erotic Poems by Everyman’s Library, and in magazines and journals around the world. His writings have been translated into Turkish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Japanese.

Reviews

[Sunny · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is for children. It's not horrible but definitely not for me

[L7xm · Rating 3 out of 5]

صوت الطفل كراوي للحكاية كان له أثر عاطفي لأنه واقعي فهكذا سينظر الأطفال حولهم وحين جاءت النهاية استبدلت صوت الطفل بصوت الراشد فخرجت عن الواقعية..
حكاية الفقر وعن الفقد .. النهاية افسدتها برأيي.

[Julie Koh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A perfect and moving tale, a redemption story told from the perspective of a child. It broke and healed me in equal measure.

[Henry Bones · Rating 5 out of 5]

A moving gem of a story.

[Radina Petrova · Rating 4 out of 5]

😢😢😢