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- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A breathtaking and absorbing novel set in Malaya propelled by the superb storytelling instinct of the author of THE RICE MOTHER. Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father...
The Light That Bends Round Corners
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laura, a successful fashion journalist based in London, finds herself uprooted from the world she knows and loves after she moves with her husband and two small children to a dilapidated bungalow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Behind the house...
The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post WW2
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
This trilogy – “Time for a Tiger”, “The Enemy in the Blanket” and “Beds in the East” – relate the story of race relations in post-war Malaysia on the cusp of independence. Burgess had served in the colonial service, and...
- Location(s): Penang
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War 2
As World War Two looms closer, a young woman travels to a far-off tropical paradise on the promise of a new life, in this powerful and emotionally gripping love story. Penang, 1939: As Evie steps off the boat, the...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author – her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): pre and post 1957
It is the time for both apprehension and hope. The youthful narrator Ravi witnesses the change in a way of life and the end of a way of thinking. The story depicts the experiences of an immigrant community in...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): around WW2
A compelling glimpse into a captivatingly exotic world of myth and magic. Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Story is set to the backdrop of 1950’s Malaya, at the height of communist guerilla activity. A married chinese women, Mei Kwei falls in love with a priest who saves the wowen caught with Mei’s husband from public embarressment.
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1969
A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical...
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