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The Feminist Press at The City University of New York

311 East 94th Street, New York, New York 10128-5684

First Feminist Press edition, 1997

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Stories originally published, in different arrangement and excluding “Sisters,” preface, and introduction, as Life’s Mysteries: The Best of Shirley Lim by Times Books International, an imprint of Times Editions Pte Ltd, in 1995. © 1995 Times Edition Pte Ltd. All rights reserved.

Compilation, preface, and “Sisters” © 1997 by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Introduction © 1997 by Zhou Xiaojing

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lim, Shirley.

Two dreams: new and selected stories / Shirley Geok-lin Lim.—1st Feminist Press ed.

p. cm.

Rev. ed. of: Life’s mysteries, 1995.

ISBN 978-1-93693-233-7 (ebook)

1. Malaysia—Social life and customs—Fiction. 2. Malaysians—United States—Social life and customs—Fiction. 3. Women—Malaysia—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Lim, Shirley. Life’s mysteries. II. Title.

PS3562. 1459T97 1997

813’ .54—dc21

96-52523

CIP

This publication is made possible, in part, by a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. The Feminist Press would also like to thank Joanne Markell and Genevieve Vaughan for their generosity.

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