Join us at Temu House on Nov 6 for a conversation with Malaysian author Preeta Samarasan! She will be speaking with The Vibesโ Kalash Nanda Kumar about her new novel, ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ. Audience Q&A and book signing will follow. Entrance is free, RSVP required via Temu House.
About the author:
Preeta Samarasan grew up in Ipoh, was educated in Malaysia and the US, and now lives in France. Her first novel, Evening Is the Whole Day, was longlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. Her short fiction and essays have been published in literary journals in several countries. Tale of the Dreamer's Son (2022) is her second novel.
About the book:
In what was once a Scottish tea planterโs mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, until the occupants of what is now known as the Muhibbah Centre for World Peace are joined by Salmah, a Malay Muslim woman. โAll are welcome here,โ they are reminded by their spiritual leader, Cyril Dragon, who is trying to ignore news of the changing political climate with its increasing religious intolerance. He is still trying to forget May 13, 1969, when ethnic tensions boiled over into bloodshed. Tale of the Dreamerโs Son guides us from that fateful incident in Malaysian history to the present day. Throughout, Samarasanโs polyphonic, rambunctious prose brilliantly navigates the tug-of-war between ideals and reality.
Date: 6th November 2022
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Books will be on sale by LitBooks
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