Review of Malachi Edwin Vethamani's "Have I Got Something to Tell You"

Abstract

 Have I Got Something to Tell You is Vethamani’s second collection of short stories. The stories focus on the lives of Malaysians of Tamil ethnicity but cover a wide and varied range of topics, tones, and moods. This review takes a slightly sociological approach to the stories and discusses them in relation to Vethamani’s portrayal of the social group from which he draws his characters, and his depiction of how they see the world and their place in it.