Two new novels explore identity and race issues unsettled since independence
KUALA LUMPUR — A contemporary Chinese Malaysian career woman thinks that loving a man of a different race and being his mistress may be the best the world has in store for her — until her past turns her world upside down.
Fifty years earlier, a mixed-race boy leaves Kuala Lumpur to follow his extravagant Malay mother to a hidden hill in the remote Cameron Highlands. At 6 years of age, the boy is too young to understand life in the community of part-hippies, part-dropouts that inhabits the Muhibbah Center for World Peace.
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