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The Sum of Our Follies (Signed edition)

作者 Shih-Li Kow 出版社:Fixi Novo 出版日期2023-01-11

The Sum of Our Follies is a novel set in Lubok Sayong, an imaginary Malaysian town. Two narrators describe Lubok Sayong and its community of quirky inhabitants. The first is Auyong, a retiree from the city who operates a lychee factory in Lubok Sayong. The other is eleven-year-old Mary Anne, an orphan who is taken in by an irascible woman in charge of the Big House. Through anecdotes and gentle humour, the two narrators observe the events that change the town and their lives 了解更多

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Bone Weight and Other Stories (Signed edition)

作者 Shih-Li Kow 出版社:Fixi Novo 出版日期2023-01-11

This cross-genre collection of twenty-five short stories and flash fiction pieces explores relationships and periods of transition. A mother questions the limits of her responsibility to her husband and son. A man operates a leaf blower during Chinese New Year, leading to tragic consequences. In speculative stories, a demolition worker dreams of clean air while Kuala Lumpur decays, and a cooking robot attempts to perfect its fried rice for a grieving family. These characters 了解更多

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Ripples and Other Stories (Signed edition)

作者 Shih-Li Kow 出版社:Fixi Novo 出版日期2023-01-11

This polyphonic collection of twenty-five stories presents a multitude of Malaysian perspectives spanning age, gender, and class. Yow char kwai hawkers compete for customers on a busy city street. Marital dynamics unfurl at an abortion clinic. On an island, a man’s infatuation with a veiled woman takes a supernatural turn. A woman writes to her brother about their dead cat. Characters in these stories connect through chance encounters and fateful events. Their narratives a 了解更多

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Big Trouble in Little Paradise by Nathaniel Sario (Fixi Novo)

作者 Nathaniel Sario 出版社:Fixi Novo 出版日期2023-01-10

Welcome to Darat Kumut, Sabah. This is where people go to relax, feast on seafood, and maybe even try their luck at the nearby island's casino resort. Everything about it is perfect - until the bodies start piling up. The first corpse belongs to Tommy Asandu, the town’s notorious bad boy. Given the fact that most people hated him. the news of his death was met with indifference or even outright glee. Newcomer Wesley Lawrence Moysin, a former journalist, is drawn to investi 了解更多

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Posthumous Child: Inspector Mislan and the Playgroung Murder

作者 Rozlan Mohd Noor 出版社:Fixi 出版日期2022-10-01

A young woman named Norita is found dead at a playground in Bangsar. Forensic examination makes an eerie discovery: The victim was pregnant but her baby has been stolen from the womb. Inspector Mislan Latif and his assistant Detective Sergeant Johan Kamaruddin of Special Investigations (D9) examine Norita’s life as a GRO who entertained some very rich and connected clientele, including men in politics and the judiciary. Was she killed by one of her clients? And what happe 了解更多

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Once Upon a Time in Malaysia

作者 Murale Pillai 出版社:Gerakbudaya Enterprise 出版日期2022-08-01

Life in 16th-century Malacca—as it is in Malaysia today—was centered on power and politics, trade and commerce, rivalry and strife, race and religion, and war and peace. As the leading entrepot of the Nusantara, Malacca grew rich and prosperous. Then things took a familiar turn. The political ethos of the inward-looking and self-serving ruling elite had begun to change for the worse. Bent on enjoying the trappings of wealth and power, they ignored the needs and well-bein 了解更多

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The Myth of the Lazy Native

作者 Syed Hussein Alatas 出版社:Gerakbudaya 出版日期2022-01-01

Originally published in 1977, The Myth of the Lazy Native is an early example of a systematic critique of colonial knowledge. Syed Hussein Alatas analyses the origins of the myth of the ‘lazy native’ from the 16th to the 20th century in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, and how it functions within colonial capitalism, a type of transformed feudal order with racial undertones. The ‘indolence’ that the native population was accused of was not just linked to labo 了解更多

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She Never Looks Quite Back

作者 |Mallika Naguran 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-08-11

The life of a woman, no matter who she is or where she might be, typically encompasses loss and longing, despair and courage, regret and love. She Never Looks Quite Back murmurs of such experiences and more. The stories depict themes of growing up, social unrest, nature, war, migration, reconciliation, sensuality, infidelity and the pandemic. The narratives allow glimpses into lives conflicted by chance and choice... women who find themselves in the most extraordinary circums 了解更多

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Nusantara - A Sea of Tales

作者 Heidi Shamsuddin 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-12

Nusantara – A Sea of Tales is the most comprehensive collection of folk tales, fairy tales, myths and legends from the Nusantara and Southeast Asian region, and was written to sit alongside the great anthologies of folklore from other parts of the world. Although it is impossible to trace the origins of most of these traditional tales, we do know that these stories were used as a means to discover ourselves and the world around us. Like a living creature, these tales came 了解更多

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A Dead Body Never Lies

作者 Dr Rohayu Binti Shahar Adnan , Fatin Amin 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-11

Words and actions can mean a thousand things in any mortality case, but only the body can provide the truth to decipher the cause of death. Dr Rohayu, a forensic pathologist, knows she has a duty to the dead and lives by the statement, ‘a dead body never lies’. She has taken the unsaid oath to be the voice of and safeguard the ones who are not able to tell their story. With Malaysia’s diverse melting pot of race, culture, and religion, Dr Rohayu has been through a pleth 了解更多

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Looking After the Ashes

作者 Kopi Soh 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-09

If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don't polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks. Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh's childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of 'wisdom' daily. She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly forbidden, pointin 了解更多

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Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories

作者 Lim , Wan Phing 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-09

Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a crime. A young girl steals her grandmother’s jade bracelet. A Malay man collects the blonde hair of a British teenager he is transfixed with, and a young woman feeds human blood to a frangipani tree. There’s right and wrong in this world. Or is there? This collection of fourteen stories explores the grey and amoral lives of ordinary – and not so ordinary – Malaysians and Singaporeans looking to carve their place in the wo 了解更多

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The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories

作者 Paul Gnanaselvam 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-07

The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories is a collection of 18 slice-of-life short stories featuring nuanced and diverse depictions of the Indian community in Malaysia. The overall theme of this collection echoes the outer and inner demons that possess the Malaysian Indian community. Specifically, the stories dictate the outlook of their lives as both Indians and Malaysians. The collection covers themes such as socio-politics, socio-economic imbalance, gender issues, social cla 了解更多

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Orchids of the Rainforest

作者 Ram Anand 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-07

Geetha’s seemingly perfect world is shattered when she loses her husband of five years, forcing her into a period of introspection. Her younger brother, Yuva, has to confront his own prejudices as his relationship with his partner gradually crumbles by the day. Sabitha-their cousin and the youngest of the three-is about to reveal a secret that she had kept from her family for many years, and has to live with the repercussions. As they deal with their personal troubles, the 了解更多

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Grandma’s Gangsta Chicken Curry and Gangsta Stories from My Hippie Sixties

作者 Azly Rahman 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-05

He is no longer him, today. At ten, he saw a chicken beheaded in his backyard, he too, an accomplice. He roamed his village, sometimes barefoot, wading through streams, backyards of his neighbors’ houses where young men were high, smoking ganja. He once saw a group of men in red headbands with Arabic words on them, ready to march to the capital city to slaughter many. He fought demons, wept when the family dog died battling a cobra. He saw men in a trance, munching on broke 了解更多

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The Blood Prince of Langkasuka

作者 Dutta , Tutu 出版社:PRHSEA 出版日期2021-01-02

"Raja Perita Deria, is a carefree and arrogant seventeen-year-old; and his story begins with a seemingly ordinary night out with his close friends. However, a chance encounter with a bewitchingly beautiful woman in an abandoned temple, almost ends his life and changes him irrevocably. After an incident involving the cook, and a dish of bayam, tainted with blood, he discovers that he needs blood to heal and for sustenance. As heir to the throne of Langkasuka, the prince is als 了解更多

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Spinning Top: Kain Songket Mysteries

作者 Barbara Ismail 出版社:Monsoon Books 出版日期2020-02-20

It was the dry season, when all Kelantan bursts into artistic bloom, with theatre and contests and all manner of entertainment staged in the dry rice paddies, which were now cracked and flat and hard as rock. A large group of men readied themselves for a top spinning contest: those in charge of the tops rotating their shoulders and loosening their already prominent biceps. Others, who would watch the tops spin and calculate which had done so the longest, were smoothing the gr 了解更多

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