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Though I Get Home

Though I Get Home
  • Author(s): Y Z Chin
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Fourteen short stories intertwine in Chin’s beautiful, visceral collection. In the early 21st century, Isabella “Isa” Sin, 28, wants to be a writer. Instead, she’s imprisoned in her native Malaysia for writing an obscene poem that supports the leader...

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach
  • Author(s): Blanche d'Alpuget
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Two women, two worlds. Together they must risk everything Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith...

We, the Survivors

We, the Survivors
  • Author(s): Tash Aw
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to...

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