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Tales from the Court and Other Stories

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In this compendium of short stories, the author, who is a keen student of human foibles, gives us a series of vignettes from the Kuala Lumpur of the 1950s. His characters come vividly to life: from Eddodes, the creative and legendary builder of castles in the air and Boniface ‘Birdie Boy’ Ratnayake, the aspirant judge, to Musso the exorcist, and Mike Kumar, the confidence trickster.

In this book, all these characters talk to us. The author captures the very essence of their being and their cultures as they play their little games in life, made up of illusions, craftiness, ego, hope and aspirations.

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In this compendium of short stories, the author, who is a keen student of human foibles, gives us a series of vignettes from the Kuala Lumpur of the 1950s. His characters come vividly to life: from Eddodes, the creative and legendary builder of castles in the air and Boniface ‘Birdie Boy’ Ratnayake, the aspirant judge, to Musso the exorcist, and Mike Kumar, the confidence trickster.

In this book, all these characters talk to us. The author captures the very essence of their being and their cultures as they play their little games in life, made up of illusions, craftiness, ego, hope and aspirations.

 

Publisher: Silverfish Books

Paperback

2008

ISBN: 9789833221219

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