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Welcome to Gerakbudaya Bookshop

We are passionate about the books that matter


Opened in 2014 and 2018, and located in the heart of George Town’s world heritage site, the two Gerakbudaya Bookshops
are an essential part of the city’s cultural life. The name of the bookshop is well chosen. In the Malay language, gerak
denotes move while budaya means culture. We hope our presence helps stimulate fresh, radical ideas and new forms of
cultural engagement in Penang and beyond.

Gerakbudaya Bookshop is a place for people who love books to meet, talk and, of course, browse. Visit us any time.

Featured Books

Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
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RM125.00

What is blood How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the...
Local Democracy Denied? A Personal Journey into Local Government in Malaysia
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RM25.00

There are plenty of books on federal government and politics in Malaysia, but very few on local government Yet it is the level of government that is...
A Flutter in the Colony
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RM40.00

In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh In their new hamlet of anonymity, the couple gradually forget past...
The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Vol. I
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RM120.00

Set in seventeenth-century Istanbul, The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Vol I is a beautifully drawn meditation on love, home, faith and loss It...
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
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RM79.00

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic...
The Translator Gives It Visible Form: Translating Malay and Indonesian Literature
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RM15.00

The Annual Hikayat Lecture on Literary Translation Literary translation is easy You just replace the words in one language with the same words in...
Eclectic Cultures for All: The Development of the Peranakan Performing, Visual and Material Arts in Penang
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RM60.00

The Peranakan culture of Penang, Malaysia, has a rich and fascinating history Rooted in a place-based identity, it has drawn on Chinese, Malay and...
Ronggeng-Ronggeng: Malaysian Short Stories
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RM35.00

Ronggeng-Ronggeng is an important collection that brings into focus the hitherto little recognised variety and richness in Malaysian short-story...
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Featured Author Tan Sooi Beng

Tan Sooi Beng is a professor in the School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia and is one of the leading authorities on the performing ...

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31Dec

Book Launch: Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs | 15 January 2020

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith in conversation with Gareth Richards Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Yale University Press) Wednesday

31Dec

Book Launch: Eclectic Cultures for All | 8 January 2020

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Eclectic Cultures for All: The Development of the Peranakan Performing, Visual and Materials Arts in Penang Tan Sooi Beng, Grace Choong Ai May and Sar

4May

Book Launch: Diary of One Who Disappeared by Jason Erik Lundberg

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DIARY OF ONE WHO DISAPPEARED Join us this Saturday for the latest Books@Hikayat event, co-organised by the bookshop. Here are the details: Book Launc

23Jun

George Town Literary Festival 2018

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Gerakbudaya Bookshop will once again be the official bookseller to the award-winning George Town Literary Festival this year. The festival dates are

23Jun

Cambridge University Press

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        We have just concluded an arrangement for specially discounted prices on Cambridge University Press titles focusing on Mal

29Oct

Rosalie and Other Love Songs by Saidah Rastam | A Celebration

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Venue: Penang House of Music, Level 4, KOMTAR Date: Sunday 5 November 2017, 4.00pm–6.00pm A celebration of the publication of the new edition of 

11Oct

Book Launch: The Travels of Marco Yolo

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The Penang launch of Marco Ferrarese’s engaging new book, The Travels of Marco Yolo (Gerakbudaya). Date: Sunday 22 October 2017, 7.00pm Venue: S

4Sep

Book Launch: Minister of Finance Incorporated

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The Penang launch of Edmund Terence Gomez’s important new study of Malaysia’s political economy, Minister of Finance Incorporated: Ownersh

7Aug

Book Launch: Bernice Chauly: Once We Were There

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The Penang launch of Bernice Chauly‘s outstanding debut novel, Once We Were There (Epigram Books). Journalist Delonix Regia chances upon the cul

Reflections

 Tan Twan Eng Author of The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists

The opening of a new bookshop is always a cause for celebration, especially when all we keep reading about is how bookstores worldwide are closing down. Every new bookshop that opens is another flaming torch holding back the darkening world.

 Adil Johan Writer and musician

One of the best selections of academic and non-academic books in Malaysia. Very passionate and knowledgeable staff. This is not just a bookshop, it is an institution and a community.

General Enquiries

If you require information about our products and services, including events and bookstalls, or if you want to be added to our email list for events, book club membership or special promotions, please contact us at: info@gerakbudayapenang.com