book discussion
Up close & personal with Tash Aw
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaUPDATE: We're sold out of tickets. Thank you all for your support! We’re excited to welcome Tash Aw back to Lit Books in December! For those of you who missed out on his author session in August, this is your chance to catch the London-based award-winning Malaysian author in person. Lit Books’ very own […]
Book Discussion: What I Saw in Malaya
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWhat I Saw in Malaya compiles early 20th-century French anthropologist Jeanne Cuisinier’s lectures and methods on observing the lives of Malayan peoples she encountered. Cuisinier has been presented as an anthropologist with an academic yet affectionate attitude towards her Malayan subjects, a gentle presence in Malaya that can shed light on the lifestyles of Malayans […]
Suffian Hakim in conversation with Two Book Nerds Talking
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWe're delighted to have Suffian Hakim return to Lit Books in December with the illustrated edition of his first novel, Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher, in which a bespectacled boy finds out that magic is disappearing in Singapore... and has to stop it. Together with literary podcaster Two Book Nerds Talking and […]
Tim Mackintosh-Smith in conversation with Sumit Mandal
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEminent Arabist, translator, and traveller Tim Mackintosh-Smith will be at Lit Books to discuss his new book 'Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires' with historian and associate professor at University of Nottingham Malaysia Sumit Mandal.
Book Launch: Not a Monster
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us for the launch of Chua Kok Yee’s NOT A MONSTER, winner of the 2nd Fixi Novo Malaysian Novel Contest. Fixi founder Amir Muhammad will be speaking with Kok […]
Author event with Florentyna Leow
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaJoin us for a conversation with Japan-based Malaysian writer Florentyna Leow who will be speaking with Elaine Lau about How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, an intimate collection of essays about […]