Ricky Star

First published in 1978 by Pan Pacific Book Distributors, Ricky Star is about a man who strives for career and financial success at the expense of everyone else around him, including even his wife and daughter. At first successful in his endeavour to climb a series of corporate ladders and becoming very rich, Ricky is, in the end, forced to reckon with his past misdeeds and indiscretions.

“For contemporary readers in Singapore, Lim’s novel anchors us—perhaps for the first time—in a particular historical period that is growing ever more remote. Like all anchors, it causes us to pause, snagging on obstinate histories and memories, and making us look again, more deeply, at a period and a way of life which we might otherwise pass with only a brief backward glance.”
—Professor Philip Holden, National University of Singapore, from the introduction