Summary
1953, Cold War, cusp of Independence and adulthood, England, Berlin, Malaya. An unfortunate young Malayan student must choose where his loyalties lie.
London, 1952. Young man Hamid, adrift from his studies and from himself, uncertain of his future and that of Malaya, not yet a country. He wants to belong to something but is it to his Sultan, to a barely imagined nation or to the British Empire? The answer, he believes, is to find a wife.
In the Great Smog, he meets Tom Pelham,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815233858 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9815233858 |
| Author: | Kam Raslan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 374 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 138mm x 216mm |
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Kam Raslan
Kam Raslan is a Malaysian writer and broadcaster. Originally a film-maker working in London, Los Angeles, Malaysia and Indonesia, he has written for many publications including The Economist, Mekong Review and he had a long-running column in The Edge Malaysia. He hosts two shows on BFM Radio: A Bit of Culture and Just For Kicks. Kam Raslan is the author of Confessions of an Old Boy, a collection of short stories, the various adventures of Dato’ Hamid from the 1940s to the 2000s. The book was first published in 2008 and has been re-issued in 2024.
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