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Malay Sketches, Book Launch at Revolution Books

Celebrate the release of MALAY SKETCHES, a collection of short stories by acclaimed Singaporean author and social critic Alfian Sa’at. Three writers, including academic NORASHIQIN TOH, translator and fictionist JEREMY TIANG, and Gaudy Boy publisher JEE LEONG KOH, will read and respond to the collection, addressing issues of race, class, and identity against the sociopolitical backdrop of America.

A hijab-wearing schoolgirl who refuses to shake the president’s hand. The hantu tetek—a ghost who kills children by squeezing their heads between her breasts. A Malay doctor embarrassed by his Malay patient’s teen pregnancy. A sleeping boy on the bus who awakens a sudden feeling of tenderness in a lonely stranger.

Precise yet universal, grounded yet probing, Malay Sketches, praised by Harold Augenbraum as “pitch-perfect,” gives us a prismatic window into the doubly minoritized Malay-Muslim community in Singapore and introduces Alfian Sa’at as a major contemporary author of searing insight, new perspective, and poetic grace to American readers for the first time. Malay Sketches is the inaugural title released by the new indie press Gaudy Boy, which publishes voices of Asian heritage.

A light Singaporean reception will follow the reading.











When: Thu., Mar. 22, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: Free
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Celebrate the release of MALAY SKETCHES, a collection of short stories by acclaimed Singaporean author and social critic Alfian Sa’at. Three writers, including academic NORASHIQIN TOH, translator and fictionist JEREMY TIANG, and Gaudy Boy publisher JEE LEONG KOH, will read and respond to the collection, addressing issues of race, class, and identity against the sociopolitical backdrop of America.

A hijab-wearing schoolgirl who refuses to shake the president’s hand. The hantu tetek—a ghost who kills children by squeezing their heads between her breasts. A Malay doctor embarrassed by his Malay patient’s teen pregnancy. A sleeping boy on the bus who awakens a sudden feeling of tenderness in a lonely stranger.

Precise yet universal, grounded yet probing, Malay Sketches, praised by Harold Augenbraum as “pitch-perfect,” gives us a prismatic window into the doubly minoritized Malay-Muslim community in Singapore and introduces Alfian Sa’at as a major contemporary author of searing insight, new perspective, and poetic grace to American readers for the first time. Malay Sketches is the inaugural title released by the new indie press Gaudy Boy, which publishes voices of Asian heritage.

A light Singaporean reception will follow the reading.

Buy tickets/get more info now