21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders is an explosive debut from the quietly talented Rozlan Mohd Noor, an ex-police officer, which explains why he knows so much about police work and inside stories. This is a true Malaysian high-tech crime thriller with good cops, bad cops (and badder cops) and triad members, with insights into the workings of the local CSI, and forays into the world of hackers and their viruses, sleeper programs, trojans, ulat, spybots, hound dogs and their link to crime, including murder.
Beyond The Blue Gate
MYR
65.00
Pengarang Teo Soh Lung
ISBN 9789675832017
Penerbit SIRD
2010, Edisi First Edition, 392 muka surat
Harga RM 65.00
Lawyer Teo Soh Lung’s memoir of her 21 May 1987 arrest and framing by the Singapore authorities as part of the so-called ‘Marxist Conspiracy’ is a remarkable document. Not only does it show how a person of courage and integrity can speak truth to power, but it also illustrates how that power corrupts and destroys the souls of those who wield it unscrupulously. One day a Singaporean Truth and Reconciliation Commission will determine the truth of the PAP years. Until this happens, this memoir will serve as an essential benchmark. -- Peter Carey, Fellow Emiritus, Trinity College, Oxford
Teo Soh Lung’s book should be read by all people who are interested in democracy and the rule of law. Not only is it a poignant personal account of official ill treatment, but it is a brilliant testimony to the cruelty of authoritarianism, even, indeed especially – when it comes in the guise of legal due process. This is perhaps the most shocking aspect of her story: the abuse of the law in a republic which is democratic in theory, but sacrifices its most democratic citizens to the whims of the rulers. -- Ian Buruma, Henry R Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Right and Journalism, Bard College
Behind the Blue Gate documents vividly Soh Lung’s intellectual and emotional awareness and reflections of a person in captivity. How power blinds justice is nothing new in the world of politics. But Soh Lung’s accounts impressively details and transmits viscerally her physical and psychological journey whilst in detention. This book is a must-read. It not only gives the reader insights to the human condition, but it also enables one to reflect on one’s moral capacity when facing the hurdles and challenges in standing up for one’s beliefs. It’s also very important to have this literature. Thanks, Soh Lung for taking the trouble to write it all down. Reading the accounts amazes me how sharp your memory was. It is testimony of how human cruelty can be etched so deeply in the human psyche. -- Alvin Tan, Founder and Artistic Director, The Necessary Stage
Deep In The Jungle
MYR
65.00
Pengarang Liu Jun
ISBN 9789810858216
Penerbit Liu Jun Studio, Singapore
2010, Edisi First Edition, 478 muka surat
Harga RM 65.00
This carefully researched novel is translated from its original serial appearance in the Nanyang Siang Pau. It enters into the often-bitter experience of the Malayan Communist Party members who were insurgents during the Japanese Occupation and subsequent "Emergency" in Malaya. The author, born in 1940, has had close contact with MCP survivors including some now living in the Peace Village in Southern Thailand. He has made good use of their personal recollections of the confusion and suffering, ideals and disillusion of the period.
Islam And Modernism
MYR
55.00
Pengarang Charles C. Adams
ISBN 9789675062452
Penerbit IBT
2010, Edisi First Edition, 283 muka surat
Harga RM 55.00
Journalist, agitator, lecturer, teacher, reformer — Muhammad ‘Abduh’s many contributions to modern Muslim history as the leading reformist of the al-Azhar circle sometimes earned him the title of the father of ‘Islamic Modernism’. This intellectual biography by Charles Adams, a sympathetic American academic, examine Islamic reformism in Egypt through the work of ‘Abduh (1849–1905), revealing the influences that moulded his thought and tracing his transformation from someone who was “buried in mystic visions” to a leading champion of Islamic reform.
Islamic Awakening
MYR
40.00
Pengarang Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
ISBN 9789675062537
Penerbit IBT
2010, Edisi First Edition, 177 muka surat
Harga RM 40.00
Kandungan
Looking for answers in a world marked by enormous volatility, pressure and political and economic corruption, Muslim youth are an easy target for extremist movements. Shaykh Qaradawi traces the complex roots of these views, and examines in-depth the many causes of the path to intolerance, offering a variety of remedies and cures. Perhaps more relevant today, given our troubled climate, than at any time in the past, the work introduces readers to a subject of great significance and wide ramifications.
Lethal Lesson And Other Stories
MYR
40.00
Pengarang Adeline Lee Zhia Ern
ISBN 9789833221240
Penerbit Silverfishbooks Sdn. Bhd.
2009, Edisi First Edition, 176 muka surat
Harga RM 40.00
Kandungan
One day, mother said to me, "Do you want to go to Malaya?" I stared at her stupidly. Am I going to follow the other girls who have gone? Am I going to be married off? Mother told me that our neighbour, Lau, had a son in Malaya who needed a wife. I had only seen Yuan when he was a little boy, thus the impression of his face was fuzzy in my mind. "You're already twenty-one. You should have been married a long time ago. Do you want to go?" I was not sure. If I were to go, I knew life would be extremely different there. But as a daughter, I knew my mother wanted her request obeyed. I was somehow intrigued by the idea of going to a new country. "Lau has promised three cows in exchange for your marriage to his son. I think it's a good transaction." I nodded. So it was settled. -- Extract from Belonging Somewhere.
It was a surprise to know of the writer's age after I read her book. The mastery of the language, the creativity, and the fact that it was not a sappy teenage love story made the reading enjoyable. He passion must be encouraged. This is a good start to a writing career. Good Luck. -- Dina Zaman author of I am Muslim.
Fresh, unafraid and disarmingly unpretentious. Adeline lets her imagination rule her stories. Adeline also writes with a clarity that will surely serve her well in her writing future.
Ripples And Other Stories
MYR
40.00
Pengarang Shih-Li Kow
ISBN 9789833221233
Penerbit Silverfishbooks Sdn. Bhd.
2008, Edisi First Edition, 192 muka surat
Harga RM 40.00
Kandungan
Shih-Li just keeps getting better and better. In her first full book of short stories (which, incidentally has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in the First Book category), Shih Li's delicate touch and turn of phrase continues. She says she loves writing and obviously means it. She will not let any excuse get in the way of her passion. She holds a full time job working six days a week, and is a loving single mother with a ten-year-old.
"... If you were getting tired of fiction, this is the place to have your faith renewed in the beauty and the terror of the imaginary.
I recommend that you read the stories in order of appearance. Unexpected delights will emerge: characters, locations and events from earlier stories will pop up in subsequent ones, adding shade and dimension to the earlier appearances. Things connect – not in a mystery-solving way, but because even seemingly random occurrences have a history behind them. And since these connections occur in a social environment like Malaysia, they get complicated further by our famously fraught cultural and historical matrices."
TAXI brings together 58 fictional dialogues with Cairo cabbies recreated from the author’s own experience of traversing the city. It takes the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city’s potholed and chaotic streets.
Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history – and a work of poetry in motion – TAXI tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Cairo’s 80,000 cab drivers. It is a wing-mirror that reflects both on modern Egypt and on the human condition, plucking from the rush-hour sandstorm a feast of memories, lies, loves, hates and dreams.
TAXI was an instant bestseller in Arabic markets and has been credited with reviving an interest in reading in Egypt. This unique work explores the poignant self-reflections of members of a caste who have little in common apart from their trade.
The Art of Naming
MYR
30.00
Pengarang Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf
ISBN 983-42784-0-3
Penerbit Awards Publishing
2006, Edisi First Edition, 123 muka surat
Harga RM 30.00
Kandungan
Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf is a Malaysian Muslim woman who has recently (2006) release the book of poetry called The Art of Naming: A Muslim Woman's Journey. Her poem, "My Veil, My Body" was first published by Seal Press in the book Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith & Sexuality (2006) and edited by Sarah Husain.
The Chempaka Trees
MYR
30.00
Pengarang Tan Jing Quee
ISBN 9789834479305
Penerbit GERAKBUDAYA
2009, Edisi First Edition, 150 muka surat
Harga RM 30.00
Walk Along The Tracks
MYR
56.00
Pengarang L.A. Vincent
ISBN 9789675766008
Penerbit Tak berkenaan
2010, Edisi First Edition, 641 muka surat
Harga RM 56.00
Kandungan
Just when you thought that railways were all about trains, along comes a book that opens up a whole new vista into a railway. This is that book, and it’s a story of the Malayan Railway. Daily coal trains to Batu Arang, monthly pay trains escorted by the Railways’ own police force and a train that ran just 3 miles but came to be called an express, are just some of the gems unearthed from our Railways’ forgotten past. The Railways managed ports and even operated an airline at one time. And it wasn’t just people; even cows and horses took the trains! Spiced with interesting bits of history and anecdotes, this is a railway story seen through the eyes of people who lived, and worked in it. A must-read book if you are a railway buff.
Without Anchovies
MYR
40.00
Pengarang Chua Kok Yee
ISBN 9789833221271
Penerbit Silverfishbooks Sdn. Bhd.
2010, Edisi First Edition, 172 muka surat
Harga RM 40.00
"... In my thirty years of teaching, I have seen many of my former students grow up and take on unexpected roles in life; star athletes have ended up working as illegal car jockeys, mediocre students have become millionaires, and perfectly decent boys are now politicians," as said by Cikgu Preetam in Perfect Prefect
Heart-rending, hilarious, irreverent, fantastical, macabre and one hundred per cent Malaysian, all at the same time, these twenty-two stories by Chua Kok Yee explore what it is like to live in this bizarre country. And the message is all about hope. These are stories of Malaysian, by a Malaysian, for Malaysians. No apologies asked for, or given. Chua Kok Yee is an old-fashioned yarn-spinner with a thoroughly modern sensibility, and many of the tales in Without Anchovies would make great short films. -- Amir Muhammad, Writer and independent filmmaker