a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Sl6rcTQrDiI/AAAAAAAAG-8/cK19mvYdIjA/s1600-h/malayan+trilogy.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Sl6rcTQrDiI/AAAAAAAAG-8/cK19mvYdIjA/s400/malayan+trilogy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358909109312359970" border="0" //ablockquote style="font-style: italic;"The Malayan Trilogy is a rambunctious and colourful performance of heat and lust, with the comic bathos of downpours always on hand to quench any potential high-mindedness. It should be made a compulsory text at school, as long as the teachers aren’t prudes who will latah at the lewd words./blockquoteDo go a href="http://amirmu.blogspot.com/2009/07/tropical-tempers.html"read Amir Muhammad's excellent review/a of Burgess' span style="font-style: italic;"The Malayan Trilogy/span which was in span style="font-style: italic;"The Malay Mail/span yesterday. it's so good to see the book reaching a new generation of Malaysians and influencing the writing here (both Preeta Samarasan and Shih-Li Kow have named it as one of their favourite reads about the country).br /br /While you're on his blog, do take a look at the other reviews of Malaysian books there including a href="http://amirmu.blogspot.com/2009/07/teen-spirits.html"span style="font-style: italic;"Lethal Lesson and Other Stories/span/a by Adeline Lee Zhia Ern, and Adeline Loh's a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://amirmu.blogspot.com/2009/07/tourists-and-other-animals.html"Peeing in the Bush/a. (Too many Adeline's?!)div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-80139820947351626?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div
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