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- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s/1950s
First published in 1956, Han Suyin’s magnificent novel about the Emergency Period in Malaya and Singapore evokes all the colour and conflict of a land where, in the late 1940s and early 50s, a bitter guerrilla war was fought...
- Location(s): Bangka Island, Kuala Lipis, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s, 1940s 1960s
Malaysia 1962: Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner’s wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. The sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts...
- Location(s): Johor, Borneo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): 1995 - 2006
CRY OF THE FLYING RHINO is set in 1996 Malaysia and Borneo, told from multiple viewpoints and in multiple voices. Malaysian Chinese family doctor Benjie Lee has had a careless one night stand with his new employee – mysterious,...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of...
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WWII
In February 1942, nine-year-old Olga and her family were living in Malaysia when Singapore fell to the Japanese Imperial Army in the biggest defeat in history of the British Forces. Sent to the notorious Changi Prison, they suffered three...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kebaya Tales is a delightful collection of short stories, teeming with fascinating and interesting characters, unexpected twists and turns, cultural rituals, beliefs and superstitions and poignant events in the life stories of the Peranakans. Lee Su Kim’s book brings...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Nazi Goreng is a disturbing story of one young Malay man’s coming-of-age in the big city and offers a stunning portrait of the racial tensions that pervade Malaysian society. Asrul is a fanatical yet naïve Muslim skinhead from small...
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