In Conversation with Kam Raslan (June 14, 2025)
RM10.00
Join Kam Raslan and Fong Min Hun at Lit Books Tropicana at 8pm on Saturday (14/6/25) where the two will talk about the motivation for reviving this iconic character, the challenges involved, and whether the reimagination of life as a younger man is a tonic for middle age. Tickets are RM10 and attendees will receive a voucher to use on the day itself.
After 17 years, we finally come to learn of the intrepid beginnings of the charming, well-meaning, but essentially harmless (and perhaps ineffectual) Dato’ Hamid, the ‘old boy’ in Kam Raslan’s break-out hit, Confessions of an Old Boy. In Malayan Spy, Kam’s prequel to Confessions, we once again find our hero, Dato’ Hamid, being haplessly led astray by his weakness for wine and women at the height of the cold war in the 1950s. Sent on a top secret mission to East Berlin to turn a communist student leader, Dato’ Hamid invariably finds caught in a web of intrigue from which he must escape!
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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.
