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The Weight of Our Sky
Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.
The Gift of Rain
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japanese diplomat and master in the art of aikido. But when Japan invades Malaya, Philip realises Endo bears a secret, one powerful enough to jeopardise everything he loves. This masterful début conjures an unforgettable tale of courage, brutality, loyalty, deceit and love.
Aku Bercerita
SEORANG pengarang novel cuba menulis naskhah terbaharu. Malangnya, gejala writers block melanda. Suatu masa... dalam keadaan separa sedar ketika terlena, dia terlihat seseorang menggunakan komputer ribanya. Namun kelibat orang itu samar-samar. Sebuah cerita yang siap ditaip terpamer pada skrin. Sebuah kisah yang mengujakan, tetapi bukan dia penulisnya. Teorinya – mungkin dia ada berkarya tanpa disedari, tetapi minda logiknya ragu-ragu. Satu demi satu cerita baharu ditemui lagi dalam komputer ribanya. Dia semakin galak mencuri idea-idea tersebut. Gaya dan teknik penceritaan memang menyerupai cara dia berkarya. Dia semakin seronok mengakui semua cerita itu adalah miliknya. Kemudian... semakin banyak kejadian pelik yang mengitari kehidupannya. Dia diburu sesuatu yang meremangkan bulu roma. Ada bahana muncul bertubi-tubi. Siapa suspek yang bertanggungjawab menghuru-harakan kehidupannya? RAMLEE AWANG MURSHID ada sebuah rahsia yang lama dipendamkan. Rahsia dirinya sendiri sejak bergelar seorang penulis novel. Lama-kelamaan... andai belenggu misteri yang menggelisahkan ini tidak dirungkaikan segera, maka berakhirlah kariernya...
The Long Day Wanes
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 and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
The Garden of Evening Mists
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE AND THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country. A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.
Fiction and Faction in the Malay World
This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay World and wrote fiction and “faction” (writing that portrays real people or events in a dramatised manner) during their sojourn – regardless of whether they continued to stay in the region, returned to their home country, or migrated to another country. The essays tend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries as the contributors of this book are drawn from various fields within the arts and humanities, including history, geography, language and literature and translation. All of them, however, deal with colonial texts, the Malay World, or primarily cover the period from...
Stories from the Stacks
The Rare Materials Collection at the National Library, Singapore, contains more than 11,000 items and spans six centuries of history. The collection comprises books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, correspondence, and more, which together provide us with valuable insights into Singapore’s history. This book presents a diverse selection of almost 50 of the rarest and most priceless items in the collection, including the Mao Kun Map, a recently-acquired Munshi Abdullah edition of the Sejarah Melayu, 19th century lithographs, Japanese reconnaissance maps, correspondence from Raffles, and even a football rule book in Jawi. Each item is described and analysed with an insightful essay and richly complemented with illustrations, helping to bring these stories from the stacks to life and lead us down new avenues of historical understanding.
