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Confrontation


PART OF Cultural Medallion SERIES
Publisher: Epigram Books
S$26.90
  • Selected by The Business Times as one of the Best Books of 2013

    Translated from the Malay by Shaffiq Selamat

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    Adi loves his life in the kampung: climbing the ancient banyan tree, watching ten-cent movies with his friends, fetching worms for the village bomoh. The residents of Kampung Pak Buyung may not have many material goods, but their simple lives are happy. However, looming on the horizon are political upheaval, race riots, gang wars and the Konfrontasi with Indonesia.

    Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, three-time winner of the Singapore Literature Prize, brilliantly dramatises the period of uncertainty and change in the years leading up to Singapore’s merger with Malaya. Seen through the unique perspective of the young Malay boy Adi, this fundamental period in Singaporean history is brought to life with masterful empathy. In the tradition of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Anita Desai’s The Village By the Sea, Confrontation is an incredible evocation of village life and of the consequences that come from political alignment and re-alignment.

    Translated for the first time into English from the Malay.

ISBN: 9781912098576
Cover Type: Paperback
Page Count: 224
Year Published: 2019
Size: 198mm x 129mm
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