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In conversation with Preeta Samarasan

November 5, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

RM10

Malaysian author Preeta Samarasan will be in conversation with Lit Books’ Fong Min Hun about her new novel, Tale of the Dreamer’s Son. Audience Q&A and book-signing will follow. Tickets are RM10 (limited to 30 pax) and you will receive a RM10 voucher valid on event day to use towards any purchase.

About the book
In what was once a Scottish tea planter’s 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. “All are welcome here,” 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 Dreamer’s Son guides us from that fateful incident in Malaysian history to the present day. Throughout, Samarasan’s polyphonic, rambunctious prose brilliantly navigates the tug-of-war between ideals and reality.

About the author
Preeta Samarasan was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States during high school. 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 has won the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Short Story Competition and been selected for a PEN/O. Henry Prize Collection. Her work has been published in A Public Space, Guernica, Copper Nickel, AGNI, and other journals. She lives with her family in the Limousin region of France.

Preeta Samarasan’s photo © Guillaume Comte

Details

Date:
November 5, 2022
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
RM10
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Website:
https://litbooks.com.my/product/in-conversation-preeta-samarasan/

Venue

Lit Books
P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana
Petaling Jaya,Selangor47410Malaysia
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0378866988
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