"No English novelist has created Asian characters that are more convincing… Burgess presents all these people with an impartial generosity; and the steamy, noisy, confused world they live in is conveyed with knowledge and skill." – New Statesman
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The Malayan Trilogy, the famous classic series of three novels by acclaimed writer Anthony Burgess has been as coloured and venerated over the past 50 years as it has been slated and criticised. Written and set mostly during the post-war era of the Malayan period, just before independence from the British, the novels describe with spectacular detail, with as much humour as there is drama, the lives of the Malayan people and their British colonisers at that historic period. Why has this series been described as the most masterly literary work to have emerged from the pen of a British writer on the Malayans of that age? Why has it been equally regarded as a highly controversial work by critics over the last few decades?
Join us for readings of selected excerpts, with exposition and discussion of the themes, context and relevance of the work. With introduction by Prof Dr Ghulam-Sarwar Yussof, and readings by Gan Teik Chee and Himanshu Bhatt.
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