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- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s to present
‘Living proof that a stammer need not hold you back’. Leys Geddes Kala Ramachandran struggled with a stammer and it became so debilitating, she thought it would be with her her whole life. But then she embraced mountaineering. And...
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affecting account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian-American woman. With insight, candor, and grace, Lim lays bare the material poverty and family violence of...
- 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...
- Location(s): Australia, England, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Dual time 1950s and 2010s
The Emergency rubles through the jungles, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950s Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, ‘have you eaten rice today?’ when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender. Simon Frampton returns to Malaya...
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...
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