Paperback: Siapa yang makan cili, dia lah yang terasa pedasnya. (He who eats chillies will feel the heat). - Malay proverb
Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its bak kwa.
But when Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim, her newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions.
Set in Kuala Lumpur and other areas of Malaysia, The Accidental Malay (2022) examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies, and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.
The Accidental Malay won the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022, which promotes contemporary creative writing and rewards excellence in Southeast Asian literature.
The Accidental Malay is available in all bookshops in Malaysia and Singapore. In the UK (Amazon) and in the USA (Barnes & Noble), it is currently available on Kindle form only.
About the author: Karina Robles Bahrin got her first break as a writer when she guest edited a weekly teen column in The New Straits Times a very long time ago. Her short fiction has been published in venues such as Urban Odysseys: KL Stories; KL Noir: Blue; A Subtle Degree of Restraint & Other Stories and Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed. She is a former columnist with The Heat, a weekly by Focus Malaysia. She currently lives and works on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia. The Accidental Malay is her debut novel.
Rating: 5/5
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