Books

Welcome to Ping's family table - and as Ping's mother would say, 'sek fan la!': come and eat!

Preeta Samarasan’s debut is a mesmerizing and vital achievement sure to earn her a place alongside Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, and Zadie Smith.

This debut novel from Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.

The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists.

This award-winning novel follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emporer.

A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.

Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love.

A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary fantasy.

Shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize.