Everyone records their actions and the events of the day in their iDiaries. Monos can only remember the last 24 hours whereas Duos retain their memories of the last 48 hours. Images: Mulholland Books / Tim Steele“How do you solve a murder when you can only remember yesterday?” In this world, there are two types of people: Monos and Duos. Join Bernice Chauly as she launches her book at The Cooler Lumpur Festival on Saturday 19 August 2017, 4:00PM – 5:00PM.More details here!
Driven to despair and madness, Del dives deep into the darkest secrets of a hedonistic city where babies are sold and women are trafficked. Their idyllic family life plunges into darkness when their 2-year-old daughter Alba is kidnapped. Del emerges from the bleakness of the times and settles into domestic bliss with Omar.
Images: Epigram Books / Bernice Chauly (Amazon)Chauly’s debut novel follows a journalist, Delonix Regia, as she falls in love with the cultured and sensitive Omar amidst the political tumult of the 1990s Reformasi protests in Kuala Lumpur. We’re more than delighted that Malaysians are making waves in the global literary scene but here are 8 more books we think you should add to your to-read list if you haven’t done so yet! Once We Were There by Bernice Chauly Perhaps you’re thinking of Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride, the tale of a young woman who is asked to be the bride of a wealthy family’s deceased son.More recently, Zen Cho is winning fans all over the world with her historical fantasy novel, Sorcerer to the Crown in which a magician ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover the reason behind England’s dried up magical stocks. The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng are also hot favourites among readers who love Asian fiction. What comes to your mind when someone asks you for recommendations of books by Malaysian authors? Most people think of Tash Aw’s critically acclaimed novels, The Harmony Silk Factory and Map of the Invisible World.
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